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Copyright is 1991, however, some of the ICs have built dates from 1993. And here is a closeup shot of the PLCC sockets.

I just opened my newly received Quadra 700, and found that strange graphics card inside. The former owner did wipe the disk, so there's no control panel and no extension available. Does anybody know this beast? Thinking further, does anybody have suitable information or software to bring it back...

The HDST driver, in combination with a CF card and an Acard SCSI-IDE bridge delivers more or less the same performance as a spinning platter HDD behind the same SCSI-IDE bridge. This is true for a G3 Powermac, but not for the SE/30...

The CF AztecMonster is built around an Acard SCSI-IDE bridge, the same one that is used in the AEC-7720U. So I took an AEC-7720U, a Toshiba MK3021GAS 2.5" HDD and my G3 Powermac running MacOS 9.2 and got the following results: And here's the AztecMonster with a CF card, attached to the same...

QuickBench claims that it bypasses the system disk cache as well. FWIW, here's the Kingston SSD I benchmarked last month. But this time, it has been initialized with HDST instead of HDT: And here, for reference, is the FWB benchmark for the same SSD, taken 4 weeks ago: Again, the same...

The TIFF attachments seem to make problems for some comrades, sorry. From my side they looked O.K. Here comes a 2nd approach, this time with PNG attachments. So we go again. Absolutely. I took QuickBench, available as part of Intech HD SpeedTools, and did benchmark one of my CF cards w/...

Simple reason: The ATTO tools don't work on my SE/30 with System 7.1. According to their README file the require System 7.5.2 or later, and although they come as fat binaries, they crash on System 7.1.Image 8.tif

Absolutely. I took QuickBench, available as part of Intech HD SpeedTools, and did benchmark one of my CF cards w/ AztecMonster again: Image 6.tif For reference, here is the FWB benchmark result, taken 4 weeks ago: The results for both sustained read and sustained write are more or less the...

Good to see some new life here. Glad you tuned in. (1) I have not configured the driver yet. Still using default parameters. (2) The Aztec presents a SCSI device. Image0.tif

The benchmark I used is an integral part of the ancient FWB Hard Disk Toolkit. For details, you might look here: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/fwb-hard-disk-toolkit-452

Just a thought: How about that disk cache in System 7? Is it only used for the boot disk or is it used for all available drives?

The SE/30 offers somewhat limited SCSI performance in general. To evaluate the "CF as HDD replacement" idea and to further benchmark the CF AztecMonster against the Acard ARS-2000SUP, I took my fastest SCSI-enabled Macintosh and did some benchmarks. Here are the results from my G3 running MacOS...

In order to isolate the AztecMonster's influence I replaced it with an Acard ARS-2000SUP SCSI-SATA bridge and did some more benchmarks with the same SE/30, the same external SCSI enclosure, the same cabling, the same CF cards, ...and this time I took an SSD as well. The test environment...

Since we have comrades contributing SE/30 related performance numbers now, I will use the same test environment now: SE/30, System 7.1.1 Pro, HDT v2.0.6. CF card test candidates Here is that CF card I benchmarked last week: Transcend 4GB CF 133x This time it's a Transcend 8GB CF 400x...

Friends have offered me their CF cards for testing, so we will get some other CF data for comparison soon. In addition, I plan to install the AztecMonster into my G3 next weekend, so we might estimate the SCSI bus performance influence.

Despite the performance numbers, it feels faster. In fact, it does not only feel faster, it IS faster. • System boot time, measured from chime to desktop with all volume icons mounted, when started from the Fireball disk, is about 53s. • I copied the whole system drive to the CF card, with all...

You are absolutely right, here is some reference data done with the same computer, the same cabling, the same external enclosure - but • this time with a Quantum Fireball 1280S instead: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2545101/DSCN1938.JPG • same as above, this time with the Fireball internal write...

So here are the very first numbers. • I took a standard CF card, a Transcend 4GB 133x http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2545101/51A3lnhtUrL._SL500_AA300_.jpg and put it together with the AztecMonster into an external SCSI enclosure, the AztecMonster's internal active terminator is disabled in my setup...

Good question. I have asked Manabu Sakai exactly the same, and in July he wrote to me: "AztecMonster and PowerMonster II are both available for newer CF PIO-6 UltraDMA 2". According to a SanDisk information, PIO-6 means 25MB/s and UDMA-2 means 33.3MB/s. Both are far below the leading edge of...

More details on mounting: • Screws and cubic nuts actually are included, together with some jumpers: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2545101/IMG_0161.jpg • Tho holes in the PCB seem to match exactly with those of a standard 3.5" disk drive: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2545101/IMG_0163.jpg Thus, using...