It seems it's down to my Samsung Evo 750, Using the HDD for a OSX install works perfectly fine. Shame I didn't test this before investing in another card...
A little more experimentation, I added a Apple branded SATA 2.5" HDD onto the SIL3112 card and booted with my known good OSX 10.4 from the SATA2IDE, the boot was extremely slow but it did get into OSX, and in System Information the HDD didn't show. Again, works perfectly fine and without issue...
Last night I modded my black card Chinese SIL3112, it had the AM28 128k ROM so desoldered, flashed with the compressed ROM, resoldered and it works perfectly for a boot drive for OS9, but not for OSX 10.4.
The card shows as a ATA device in OSX once booted.
But when attempting to boot OSX...
Our next mission is to try and get a SE onto the network and test it, but obvious that'll take a bit more £££. Yeah I'm based in St. Helens but Leigh is my local hackspace :)
Yes sorry still working on the post, just moved it, here is the correct one: https://web-test.leighhack.org/netatalk-post/lhs/blog/2024/creating-an-appletalk-nas/
I'm in the process of writing a blog post about it on my local Hackspace's website, here is the draft if you want to have a read of the how to: https://web-test.leighhack.org/netatalk-post/lhs/blog/2023/creating-an-appletalk-nas/
G4 Sawtooth running 9.2.2, a Powerbook G4 Alu 12" running OSX Tiger, and a iMac G3 also running 9.2.2.
Netatalk is setup on a Ubuntu Linux VM hosted on ESXi, and the Sawtooth and iMac are connecting over ethernet, the Powerbook over WiFi.