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Just to update - I haven't had a chance to try different termination yet. I have a couple of passive terminator blocks, but no active ones. I'll give them a go first and if it doesn't work, try to pick up an active terminator. If that doesn't work, then it's probably into the 'box of bits' it...

Well, unless I can work our some way of hooking up my eprom programmer, it looks like I'm out of luck on this one. I have a couple other Macintosh/Apple systems, but the next oldest is a Beige G3, which of course has no nubus slots.

Here's my early Daystar Turbo 040 card - you can see the SRAM cache daughterboard on the back.

Ok, removed all cards apart from the SE-IV - the onboard video won't drive my lcd so I wasn't able to observe the onscreen behaviour, but, from observing the HDD light it appears to do the same thing as before - an initial few disk reads (which gets you to the 'Welcome to Mac OS' logo) and then...

Yes, but it's an old parallel port one - I don't think I've got anything current that I can run it from. Up until a year or two ago I kept an old Pentium IV box running XP just for running the programmer from.

Yes, I have a Powercolour Pro 24XK and Farralon EtherMac II in 0E and 0D, respectively. I can try booting without them, to see if that makes any difference.

Here's an image of what I get for both update utilities using slot = $0C. As a reminder, I have to remove the EPROM chip for the IIci to boot, once it has booted, I'm refitting it. The update tool *should* work with this, as detailed here: http://www.applefritter.com/node/5363.

Ah, my fault. The zip was being unpacked with MacZip, rather than Stuffit Expander. With Stuffit it retains the file type and it runs like the old 1.65 Update utility... however, I can't seem to get it to update. My card is in the further slot away, labelled as Slot C on the motherboard. I've...

That can't be right - the .bin file that comes out of the 2.1rc2 zipfile is ~100KB in size (almost precisely the same as the Updater utility in the 1.65 driver package), there's no way the EPROM is that big. At a guess It's probably no more than a few kb. Unless of course it's reprogramming the...

Ok, trying to 'hot flash' this card - booting without the EPROM in place, it starts up fine, but the card clearly not detected. I'm trying to flash it using the files here: http://www.fenestrated.net/~macman/stuff/SiliconExpress/ The 1.65 package says there's nothing to update when I force...

Just fitted this card to my IIci - was hoping to move my Aztecmonster + CF drive over to it at some point for faster IO, but for the moment the CF card is still running on the internal IIci SCSI bus... PRAM has been zapped and regardless of whether I have anything plugged in to the SE IV or...

I'm not sure of the firmware version on the 6280M right now - I'll add the original 6GB drive back in and see if the firmware update is applicable. I haven't tried a non-LBA48 drive yet on either card (ie like the original 6GB disk), so I'll try that after a firmware check of the Acard.

Beige G3 Tower Powerlogix G3 1GHz ZIF 768Mb Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA 66 PCI (i) Acard AEC-6280M PCI (ii) Various IDE drives tested; Maxtor Diamondmax 9 and 10 in 200GB flavours, and Seagate Barracuda 200GB and 320GB. I'm attempting to reinstall OS 9 on this old G3 of mine - part of the...