Lost in getting IIfx external SCSI devices to work - any advice?

[IIfx]

It came with a 10/100 Mbit ethernet card, but I can't find a driver as I don't know which make and model it is... No luck posting that question with photos here... 

Best bet would be to use software to read out the DeclROM. DeclROM will ID the card.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

TattleTech or SlotInfo would be the software to use. You've got me curious about whether my IIfx has a filter in it or not?

 

[Jeroen Wartenbergh]

Thanks guys!

No luck yet in solving my SCSI-issues. Although I can access my Zip-drive, I still have trouble with all other devices. Looking and finding a SCSI-filter seems to be impossible. So right now, it is like an isolated island...

 

[Jeroen Wartenbergh]

Thanks guys!

No luck yet in solving my SCSI-issues. Although I can access my Zip-drive, I still have trouble with all other devices. Looking and finding a SCSI-filter seems to be impossible. So right now, it is like an isolated island...

For now my best bet seems to be finding an second USB ZIP-drive in order to transfer software to the IIfx or better: a friendlier machine like a NuBus Quadra or PPC... Enabling me to use external devices...

This also means that the whole reason to acquire the IIfx is senseless, hoping to sign up a freelance job to retrieve old documents for a book publisher. I even doubt whether I will ever fetch € 300 for it as it has only 32 Mb RAM and a mere 500 Mb HD (including the FWB JackHammer, Radius Rocket 33 with just 64 Mb, the SuperMac Thunder II 1152, DigiDesign SampleCell II and an useless SMC 10/100 Mbit ethernet card (no drivers around)). Either way quite a delay will occur... And selling it without the borrowed Terminator II which renders it pretty much useless.

 

[Unknown_K]

Did I miss something here? The Jackhammer card is SCSI and bootable and does not need a filter to work. Manuals for it can be found with a quick search.

All those cards listed are easily sold , same with the IIfx itself.

You purchased equipment without having the job???

A quick google search said that ethernet card was from Sonic systems, try the files found here:

http://vintageapple.org/macdrivers/network.shtml

 

[Jeroen Wartenbergh]

Hi Unkown_K,

Sorry for missing you out on data. The FWB JackHammer is a tale on itself as it misses all three SIP-terminators. After some research I believe they need an impedance of 110 Ω. Finding the is a quest on itself. The other SCSI-card that came with the IIfx is an equally useless MicroNet Raven Pro II dual bus fast/wide SCSI. A card that is not compatible with Apple's SCSI manager 4.3 and although also bootable and allowing partitions up to 4 Gb on HFS-partitions, disk maintenance software is doubtful to be reliable as - to my knowledge - little is known about this card, creating a long-term reliability risk. Besides that, I'm missed out on software. A pitty as this card yielded a sustained 16 Mb/s data rate on my AWS 9150/120 (yes, faster NuBus 90 architecture).

Indeed I purchased the IIfx without securing the financial gains. Partly due because my first Mac was a same looking IIx. Call it love on first sight...

Thanks for the link for the Sonic Systems drivers. I will try to see to find a way to install those drivers...

Cheers,

Jeroen

BTW: great to hear that the IIfx and all cards might fetch around $ 40 each (with US shipping included for NuBus cards, IIfx is way more expensive to ship)... Also included were two unknown cards from RasterOps (Paintboard Turbo), a TrueVision TARGA 2000 Pro, a Radius VideoVision Pro  both with cables and/or breakout box, A Miro Rainbow PSD card for the IIfx, all cards I can't find on eBay to determine market prices. A Dutch user group states that basically all these cards are worth in-between € 2 to € 10. In other words, of no interest to the US market as shipping costs are close to € 25 alone, so why spending $ 2 on those cards - if ever. I'll see and look into available drivers for an Quadra or PPC era Mac...

 

[Unknown_K]

I would like to see pictures of the Miro card and the others.

If you are using only UWSCSI 68pin drives inside the IIfx and UWSCSI 68pin drives outside you don't need those terminators on the FWB card.

There is a Micronet utility for the Micronet SCSI card (I have that card in my collection), works decently.

 

[Jeroen Wartenbergh]

Midnight here in Amsterdam, I will shoot some pictures over the weekend of the cards and share them!

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

  .  .  great to hear that the IIfx and all cards might fetch around $ 40 each (with US shipping included for NuBus cards, IIfx is way more expensive to ship)... Also included were two unknown cards from RasterOps (Paintboard Turbo), a TrueVision TARGA 2000 Pro, a Radius VideoVision Pro  both with cables and/or breakout box, A Miro Rainbow PSD card for the IIfx, all cards I can't find on eBay to determine market prices. A Dutch user group states that basically all these cards are worth in-between € 2 to € 10. In other words, of no interest to the US market as shipping costs are close to € 25 alone, so why spending $ 2 on those cards - if ever. I'll see and look into available drivers for an Quadra or PPC era Mac...

Whoever it is on that Dutch user group telling you those cards are worth so little is absolutely full of it. You're being low-balled outrageously.

 

[Unknown_K]

Pretty much, those are rare cards.