Sonnet Tempo SATA in a 9600

[tattar8]

Hey,

I recently acquired a brand-new Sonnet Tempo SATA card, and am trying to get it to run under Tiger on my 9600/Sonnet Crescendo G4. The problem is that while it works like a dream under OS9, if I try to write to it under Tiger, the system completely freezes (as in no mouse movement). Is there a solution? I was originally going to just leave it under 9 and use Tiger from the original SCSI disk, but recently it gave up the ghost.

 

[Unknown_K]

Do you have OSX drivers for that card? PCI PPC machines have issues with storage controllers on cards and some might need to be in specific slots on 6 slot systems (the bus was split into 2 on the 9500/9600).

My only experience was with ATA/66 IDE controllers on PCI systems (have a few in use).

 

[Byrd]

Try also in the top PCI slot, IIRC this is the bus master slot. Also check Sonnet's website for any firmware updates.

 

[defor]

pull any other pci cards that are nonessential- i've never seen a preference with the sonnet data card- i use it in 7.6.1- but i HAVE seen strange incompatibilities, like 2 in one system as well as the long radius video board set... one + the radius boards is stable, and 2 with ANY other cards i own- from mpeg2 encoders to orangepc cards work fine, but just not 2 with that dang radius card- i'd make sure to strip down to basic video and data before going further. Another possibility- do you have a mach5 or original 9600? sonnet's drivers in general have VERY iffy support for mach5- they have a new OF and rom version that causes many problems- G4 upgrades are a good example of sonnet items that are plagued by crippling mach5 bugs...

 

[tattar8]

Byrd's suggestion did the trick; I'm now up and running with 10.4 on a 1TB hard drive. Now if only I could get OSX to recognize my Acard 6880M...

 

[johnklos]

Regarding the Acard 6880M, have you tried these?

http://www.acard.com/english/fc0101.jsp?prodno=AEC-6880M

defor: I'm curious about what kind of problems Sonnet G4 accelerators have had in Mach-5 based 9600s. I've had one in particular running for a decade now without any problems.

 

[tattar8]

I returned the 6880 to the seller because it wasn't compatible with removable drives. Anyone know a good ATA card that can handle a DVD drive?

 

[johnklos]

Get a SCSI-IDE adapter and put the DVD drive on the SCSI bus - it'll work fine. You generally don't buy a RAID card for DVD drives.

Does the Sonnet not support SATA DVD drives?