The Beige Knight Rises - PPC 7100/66

[directive0]

All I have is what I photographed.

I'll see what happens tonight. The page linked with the picture of 300 series card mentions nothing about a Math-Coprocessor nor does it really look like the one I have.

I'm starting to wonder if this is a rare one off.

 

[24bit]

Yours is not the 340, obviously. Looks like that one had a 80586 (with built in FPU).

Still your card might fit in an (earlier) 3X0 series.

If there is a VGA conector on the card, a seperate monitor should work instead of the multiport thing.

Had a similar setup with my Amiga2000 and a 80386 card with a display selector switch.

I would cross-post at Macintoshgarden, some people over there may recall about orangemicro stuff.

 

[directive0]

Installed the OrangeMicro software for 300 series cards. No joy. Tells me there are no identifiable cards present in any slot.

Apple System Profiler reads the card on the far slot $D I think, with a vendor name of OrangeMicro, an ID of 1152 and a card version of 1.0.

Bummer.



I did manage to get some more work done on my rendering! I figure I'm gonna stick both my 7100's together over localtalk and use Infini-D's net rendering tools! Haha PPC render farm!

 

[LOOM]

I think it's a 340 card. They came in both 486 and 586 editions. Up to 120MHz, 64MB SVGA, Serial & Parallel port.

What does the CPU say on top of it? Could also be a low-range 210-card with 486SX/33 CPU.

Also, try to find a model number on the card itself.

 

[directive0]

Appreciate the help!

I will collect that info when I get a chance, thanks!

 

[directive0]

Argh I'm a fool!

So I tried it with 200 series software and it just worked. Awesome!

Thanks everyone, here's some screenies for the trouble!

Downloaded the 300 series software



Huh? What does system profiler say?



Hmmm... it's there.



Sweet! Now I just need some windows floppies!

 

[24bit]

Congratulations and thanks for the screenshots!

My A2000 PC-card had a dual ported memory feature (Janus) enabling mouse and keyboard switching to and from the PC card with Janus software. Was like walking through tar, but working. I would guess that orangemicro had a similar solution to tell the PC the keyboard was there.

Do you plan for DOS/Windows3.1 or WIN95? I could donate Win95A with floppy, unfortunately its a German localized one.

 

[directive0]

Being a Mac user from day one I missed out on the salient events of the windows evolution. As a result I'm hoping to try out windows 3.1 first then move onto 95. Thanks for the offer but I have a windows savvy friend who's sourcing me some floppies!

 

[directive0]

So my next problem!

Okay. So I have a working CD drive, I can confirm that. OS 8 loads up the System 9 Disc I have and puts it on the desktop. The problem is it takes quite some time for it to spin it up.

When I hold down CMD-OPT-SHIFT-DELETE at startup it sits there until I remove my hand from the keyboard and then just boots from the Hard Drive. Is there any reason why it would be so slow to load and then refuse to boot?

 

[beachycove]

Isn't it CMD C?

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

If you're loading the system from a bootable CD, have you tried selecting it as the startup volume in the startup disk control panel?

 

[ClassicHasClass]

Isn't it CMD C?

Not on that model. But it does sound like the CD is not mounting well. Dirty optics? Bad stepper?

 

[LCGuy]

Yep, I'd say that there's something up with the CD-ROM drive. Try another disc or drive if you can. Also, is the OS 9 CD a real one or a burnt copy? Just wondering - I've had trouble booting old Macs from CD-Rs in the past, especially if they're more than a couple of years old.

Also, its not Command-C, its just the C key, though I've had better luck with Cmd-Shift-Option-Delete on pre-G3 Macs. With my machines, as a rule I use Command-Shift-Option-Delete on pre-G3 Macs, and C on G3 onwards Macs with an ATAPI drive.

 

[directive0]

Okay well that will have to wait...

Dunno why, but when I went home last night with an eMate wireless card in hand and about 4 hours of free time to get it networked, that was the time my new(to me) drive decided that it wanted to start being weird. At least I think its the drive. Its a 230MB drive that is pretty beat up, but it runs!

So I boot it up and it sits there. I hear the drive spin and grind. Happy mac. We get to the desktop. Desktop elements aren't loading... it sits there. I move the mouse and the wristwatch appears and the mouse freezes. No sounds. Then minutes (feels like hours) later suddenly some more disc grinding.. the mouse moves a bit. Then wristwatch again. I got to reboot.

Three finger salute, no response. Shift at startup- doesn't work.

So... DAMN. I guess my drive is going? Only thing I did recently:

Installed OrangePC software, Newton Connection Utilities, and changed my desktop picture to a file held on a network file share (could that be causing it to be weird?)

 

[uniserver]

tell me about scsi drives going bad, !! my powerbook 540c use to work just fine, now it sits there and makes a very odd Sweeping Squelch sound from the had drive, almost like something you would pick up with a ham radio. it does this over and over, finally i flipped the laptop upside down so i could see if i can hear the HD spin, and then it started to boot.

also , the 160mb quantum in the LC-II it is now doing the spin up and spin down thing.

 

[directive0]

I think I'm just going to breakdown and get the cf adapter.

This kinda stuff is ridiculously frustrating and I have big plans.

 

[beachycove]

You could try a low level format and start from scratch, but it does sound like the drives are indeed gone bad. Sorry about that!

 

[directive0]

Not your fault beachy cove!

I'll try and get a SCSI adapter and get that honking big server drive you gave me going!

 

[directive0]

Sourcing Hard Drive adapters.

I have a SCSI Seagate Barracuda server drive with one of those quick removal connectors you see on servers.

Pretty sure its the 68pin connector shown here.

SO I am looking at one of these guys. Anything I should know before I pull the trigger?

 

[24bit]

Quick removal was 80pin SCA mostly, I thought.

There must be adapters with or without termination. If the drive in question was the last in the chain you will rather want one with termination, unless you dont mind a 50pin tail with a terminator on it. Such tails should better be avoided, but its done that way in most old SCSI-1 external cases.