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As a gluten for Potential punishment I just wanted to ask as it’s also secret pet Love of mine to test things. Is there any projects either software or hardware wise that anyone needs any external testing done on? I should point out my main Mac’s are a couple of SE/30 machines, a 5400 in a...

Absolutely fascinating and also impressive to read/learn through all this testing and debug work being done to find out the core issue. I was finally in the position to order some boards yesterday, green with gold plating etc Not wanting to hijack this thread or anything but if there’s anyone...

yup, Sandisk are kinda the industry standard. pretty much all sdcard libraries are mostly/firstly tested with those cards above all else. ive also have very decent success using Samsung cards over the last 5+ years. in both products ive bought or stuff i've designed myself, i cant really think...

while i havent used it from everything ive read the BMOW wombat is a fantastic device, but being able to go USB>ADB and ADB>USB in the same device while supporting keyobards and mice increases complexity alot. its a product im my long....long list of things to buy for my vintage mac's. however...

people alwasy rave about things that are cheaper then the competition, sometimes they are actually better and sometimes theres trade offs. but untilll someone whos versed in electronics design and firmware design chimes in i wouldnt take anyones good (or bad) opinions as the default fact. while...

you need something that can run as USBHost, hardware wise a lot of arduino style boards can do it. probably something like the SAMD based stuff.. most of the teensy boards support running as USBHost too. the main possible issue is going to be if theres a good USBHID driver available or not...

anytime, im always happy to help out

SE/30 with Romintator i tested the following: system 7.0.1 System 7.1 System 7.5.5 System 7.6.1 Can Confirm on each system version above this works perfectly, both toggle options also work with no issues, didnt bother testing 8.1 (8.1 is to slow on a stock SE/30 anyways) as im also mostly a...

if you have no internal scsi drive connected and terminated then you probably wont have much luck getting a drive on the external scsi port to be seen by the mac. for example both my SE/30'srefuses to boot from the external scsi if i have no internal drive. basically SCSI needs to be terminated...

its probably handy to have a copy of system picker installed too, regardless if you hold 'R' at boot you should be able to boot a system 7 install from the ROM disc, from there you can use resedit to modify the 7.5.x system file on you HDD image following the instructions in the the links posed...

there's going to be a theoretical limit for each system based on CPU speed, bus speed, hdd speed etc, but on top of that i think software overhead is also going to play a part. i haven't done any network packet analysis to see if exactly why different FTP servers had such different max transfer...

with the exact same card in my SE/30 using an admittedly bloated system 7.5.5 and Open Transport i get 85-90kb/s average with peeks upto around 95kb/s using AFP on netatalk2 from my linux server. running the exact same setup with FTP (even with AFP shares still mounted) i get an average of...

could be a bad PAL, but im more inclined to think after re-soldering the pins, its broken a pcb trace or via etc. i would go over the video circuitry both with continuity and resistance too. rule that out sorta thing. you likely have to separate faults going on with both the se/30 and the SE...

ive done images close to 32gb in size (was largest micro sd card i had at the time) on the bluescsi. generally any device that has exFAT support should work as the reason for adding exFAT support on these devices is really only for the larger file size limits over FAT32

you can get the DIN41612 from pretty much any major parts supplier, i linked a search for mouser, butothers like digikey, element14 usually have stock too...