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Ok. I’m going to start over w this SSD and use my modern Mac to partition and restore. One problem I always have though - no matter what I chose in a modern Mac for format, the legacy macs never recognize the partitions and want me to ignore or initialize. Is this a feature and not a bug...

Hello, I thought I knew how to do this but it’s not working for me. System: G4 Gigabit/ 500Gb SATA SSD (IDE-SATA Adapted. Pins set to “Slave”) 6 Gb IDE (“Master”) /500 MB RAM. SSD Partition scheme: 77 Gb (OS 10.4) 30 Gb (Set aside for OS9) 10 Gb (10.4 Boot load) 10 Gb (Set aside for OS9 boot...

if I could be permitted to hijack this thread a bit - has anyone on here gotten this card working on a 6400/6500/Tam? I still haven’t been able to get Ethernet on my 6500 (see previous post here). The card discussed here is for sale on eBay for $30. one main problem unrelated to the card...

Is there any conceivable way to get a G4 Tower (Gigabit Eth) to accept and drive an Apple TV box (or Amazon Fire, Roku, etc) I realize this probably means jailbreaking the box (lemme know if that’s not allowed to discuss on here) as well as some sort of PCI video card with HDMI out. (If such...

Thank you. Do you by chance have a source for this editor that’s for OS9 or modern OSX? Only copies I can find are early versions of OSX which I’m not set up for anywhere. Went on the way back machine to quadrivio .com and couldn’t find anything there even. NEVERMIND. Looks like I found a...

Ok. Well that gives me hope & courage. Thanks for that! I will seek out an 8169. Do the letters after 8169 matter? I see 8169, 8169S & 8169SC as options on eBay. that said, why on earth would my TCP/IP no longer have Ethernet as an option? Would a faulty driver delete that somehow AND make my...

Oh I definitely know they are the preferred option but too rich for my blood 🫣. I know I’ve read that PCI cards can work too but there’s not a lot of info out there on it. I’m hoping this $20 solution works vs $200 to $300...

Bought a Realtek RTL8139D NIC card for my PCI slot on advice that that card will run on PB&J if you stick it in. Installed it. Got a green LED saying I’ve got power. System profiler sees the card. Card name: pci3030 ,5032. Card model and rom: not available. Card revision: 16. Card vendor...

Well sure enough. I deleted/reformatted that FW drive with disk utilities on a modern Mac then tried again. It mounted as unrecognized and asking if I wanted to initialize it. Did that and bam I now have a ~400Mb/s ext drive! Only nit, and it’s probably an anomaly with the drive is it isn’t...

Holy forking shirt balls. It works! Well the usb side does for sure. Great progress. Idk what you’re patch does but it’s making USB sausage now. plugged in an old 500Gb Western Digital USB/FireWire drive and got nothing on the FireWire side tho it also wouldn’t mount via FireWire on my G3...

Ok. Good to know! Thank you.

Welp. Got a new cheapo FireLink Opti type card in today (very similar to the Keyspan version I tried previously) AND decided to try all sorts of USB devices. System profiler still barely recognizes the card AKA no Card Model No Card ROM () but Sure enough part of the problem was the test thumb...

it’s so helpful to hear that there’s really no core difference between the 3 patch versions so that can be ruled out as a source of the disconnect. I’m thankful there’s folks like you with training and brains to understand how the sausage is made on these things because I for one have no clue...

I’ll probably have more to add to this here comment once I get this patch loaded up on my scsi and added to my 6500 but I wanted to jump right in and say thank you very much for solving the mystery of why that MacGarden guy got this working. Different card. Case closed. Also for your amplifying...

Oh this is great! I’m so glad you’re still around and so quick to respond! Don’t worry about “terseness”-I am similarilily handicapped in that I’m tapping all this out on a tiny iPhone. Standby for Typos galore. I am very happy to employ my time, system and very limited knowledge to help take...

Any chance I can resurrect this thread a bit? I recently restored a 6500 and am at the “add USB” stage. I for the life of me cannot get any card to work from a simple 2 port Opti FireLink based to a Tango 2.0. I installed OS 9.1 with the Tango card installed. Installed the official sonnet 1.0...