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It's weird that sonnets on spec PDF for this card doesn't mention it. I assume that means they did what you mentioned, and implemented it in a way where there was no limit. But it's all moot now anyway, the ebay seller wants too much money for the card, so I'll keep waiting for a better deal. 

I found a Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA66 on ebay. Not the 133 or sata card I really want, but realistically it should be fine. I found a spec sheet on the card, on Sonnet's website. But I couldn't find any mention anywhere about max drive capacity.  I know with IDE, there was a limit for a long time...

I believe I had a G3 CPU upgrades way back in the day, that came with just a flat piece of aluminum as the heat sink, no fins. But it seemed to work, it had a pretty good surface area and it was only a G3, I think 500Mhz. But yours is definitely missing the heat sink. I suspect that that chip...

I'm curious about the bays on this thing. Is that a real hard drive bay above the power supply? And what about the four "External" bays, are they all 5.25" bays with metal tray adapters to turn them into 3.5" bays?

How does posting stuffit in a .sit.bin solve the catch 22 problem? Don't you need expander to decompress a .hqx and a .bin? 

I'm making a classic mac software archive (see signature) and so far, I've just been reposting files as I get them. Meaning if they are .sit.bin, i post them as .sit.bin. If they are .sea.hqx, I post them as such.  But it occurred to me that there is likely a "best" way to post files, but what...

I'm looking to round out the holes in my vintage software library (see signature). I'm wondering if anyone has a true original 9.0 disk, not a downloaded copy or a burned copy from an unknown source, and not a system disc that came with a Mac. But a real, actual retail disk... And if so, I'm...

Ok looks like I got this all worked out. You cannot manually put an alias to the Launcher control panel in the Startup Items folder. Instead, you have to select "Show Launcher as Startup" in the General control panel. That will cause the Launcher to auto-open and keep auto-opening. It's very handy.

Since you have direct first hand experience with this, have you ever put a modern IDE optical drive on such an IDE PCI card? And if so, was it able to boot off System 7, OS 8, OS 9 etc discs? And read DVDs properly on these old OSes? (data DVDs I mean, not looking for video DVD playback)

That's great, just what I wanted to hear as far as compatibility. And I know Sonnet is "top of the line", I had sonnet cards back in the day. And I've half-assedly been looking for a Tempo Trio for this Mac for a while. But I haven't been able to find anything for sale anywhere unfortunately...

I never ever used the Launcher control panel back in the day, but after many years of OS X, I unsurprisingly find the Launcher pretty useful these days.  So I loaded up the launcher with all the apps I use the most, my plan being to do this on every Mac OS version/volume on this Machine. But I...

I'm not actually going to try to use this computer for useful tasks. It's more just to have, just for the hell of it. And even an unbearably slow 10.3 or 10.4, will still make it easier to transfer files to and from this machine, if I ever need to use it to do any conversions or anything. It...

I have separate partitions for 7.5.5, 7.6.1, 8.1, 8.6, 9.1 and one for OS X. As of right now, they're all up and running except for OS X. I need more than 64 MB of RAM for that :-/

The files are currently on a 7300, but I can easily transfer them to my modern Mac via ftp. No luck opening them with Preview or Photoshop (CS6): But hey look at that, grahpic converter can open them!! Nice!

Wondering if anyone knows of a way I can do this. My old Mac only goes back as far as System 7.5.5. However these Fullpaint documents I have were created on a Mac Plus in the early 90s, probably on System 5. Fullpaint doesn't run very well on System 7 or newer. If I could just open the...

Sweet, thanks! 

I'm trying to set up a wide variety of OSes on this old Mac I have. Officially, it supports 7.5.5 thru 9.1. So as you may have guessed, I get an error when I try to install 7.5.3 on it: The problem is, I don't have the original disks for this ~20 year old Machine. And 7.5.3 is the only 7.5.x...

I've been looking for one of these cards for my 7300 too. I have yet to find one anywhere, let alone at a reasonable price. I have this 10K SCSI drives that's super loud, I'd much rather replace it with a modern quiet IDE drive, possibly even a laptop drive. And my optical drive is also crapping...