I boughta pair of Atto SEIV on ebay about half a month ago. My first goal was to get one of those "monsters" to work with my mac IIci which boots mac OS 8.1 (mostly) on a large 72 gb Fujitsu 10000rpm ultrascsi drive. When they shipped: first thing should have known before was that those two cards weren't always well-treated.
I couldn't see it on the only picture on the listing, but four or five pins on a chip for each card were bent and causing short-circuit. Since I wanted these cards so bad, I spent (almost 2hrs) to straighten them up correctly with a sharp blade. What a waste.
I put the first one in my IIci -- On bootup, unimplemented trap occurs before inits start to load. Same for the second one. To make sure that they were in working state, I put both of them separately in my Power Macintosh 7100 with its Crescendo G3 disabled. Both of them didn't crash, were able to see any hard drive I would connect to it, and were bootable after updating the firmware to 1.6.5 (I didn't try to boot before doing it).
I also flashed one with version 2.1rc2 and tried it on both machines; I had problems to boot from it using my Powermac, and my IIci wouldn't see any hard drive at all, but boots, though both see the controller.
I gathered the following three informations about the behaviour of both cards during last week:
• My IIci won't detect the card at all when in 24-bit mode, so zapping PRAM can get it to boot anyway when the 1.6.5 one is in;
• Depending on the disk driver, trying to boot on the controller card's drive from my powermac may fail and prevent Mac os from seeing any partition on it (a reboot with another boot drive set is necessary to see them again);
• (Found randomly) Holding cmd-opt.-shift-backspace RIGHT AFTER seeing happy mac on my IIci makes it boot and detect the card correctly, but no hard drive on the bus is detected.
I really am out of ideas right now, what's going on? If someone can help me out in any way, It would be greatly appreciated. I am sure both cards are working, since they didn't make my 7100 crash.
I couldn't see it on the only picture on the listing, but four or five pins on a chip for each card were bent and causing short-circuit. Since I wanted these cards so bad, I spent (almost 2hrs) to straighten them up correctly with a sharp blade. What a waste.
I put the first one in my IIci -- On bootup, unimplemented trap occurs before inits start to load. Same for the second one. To make sure that they were in working state, I put both of them separately in my Power Macintosh 7100 with its Crescendo G3 disabled. Both of them didn't crash, were able to see any hard drive I would connect to it, and were bootable after updating the firmware to 1.6.5 (I didn't try to boot before doing it).
I also flashed one with version 2.1rc2 and tried it on both machines; I had problems to boot from it using my Powermac, and my IIci wouldn't see any hard drive at all, but boots, though both see the controller.
I gathered the following three informations about the behaviour of both cards during last week:
• My IIci won't detect the card at all when in 24-bit mode, so zapping PRAM can get it to boot anyway when the 1.6.5 one is in;
• Depending on the disk driver, trying to boot on the controller card's drive from my powermac may fail and prevent Mac os from seeing any partition on it (a reboot with another boot drive set is necessary to see them again);
• (Found randomly) Holding cmd-opt.-shift-backspace RIGHT AFTER seeing happy mac on my IIci makes it boot and detect the card correctly, but no hard drive on the bus is detected.
I really am out of ideas right now, what's going on? If someone can help me out in any way, It would be greatly appreciated. I am sure both cards are working, since they didn't make my 7100 crash.