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Disc Inventory X (https://www.derlien.com/index.html) was always my go-to back in the day (and today too). Looks like the downloads page still has an old Universal Binary version that supports down to 10.3.

Just depends on what you consider to be retro! My 35mm-scanning workflow runs on a Quicksilver G4 with a SCSI card connected to a Nikon LS-2000 :). Works great, either with Nikon's own software on Mac OS 9, or VueScan on 10.4. There are older versions of VueScan floating around that will work...

Oh that's extremely neat! I'll have to play with that when I get a chance.

I grabbed it from ftp://ftp.atlas.altexxa.net/software/mac/unix/robbraun/aux-usr.local-10172010.tar.bz2 a while ago; found it linked from https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Newbie_Guide_To_A/UX_(Apple_UNIX) which has a few other tips and tricks and useful software on it too.

There seem to be a few cases of this! Somewhat surprising (and annoying) in hindsight I suppose, but having looked long and hard at the 3Com/Apple/Asante design, there are some fairly strong arguments for not doing things the way they did (especially for a PDS-only card that doesn't need to be...

To make sure that the ROM is being read correctly, this tool will dump all your slot ROMs to files https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/extras/slotrom/ - might be worthwhile to make sure that that dump matches up to the one you took 'externally.' Since your card is based around the same DP8390...

Yeah, per Joevt's post I wasn't 100% correct about some of my other conclusions about the sense codes, but 678 definitely works for me - my card is an SX as well, and can only do 256 colours at 1024x768, though it can do higher colour depths at lower resolutions. If you're getting garbled...

Yeah, that grey screen is (I'm pretty sure) the point at which A/UX probes for expansion cards and reinitialises the video driver - A/UX does some truly cursed shenanigans in the video department, emulating a subset of Mac OS ROM traps to allow any video card's ROM to run unmodified. In my IIfx...

Suffice to say, I think my hinge repairs on my 180c are holding up OK

Yes! SEthernet is my unruly brainchild. Sorry that perfectionism and other hobbies have got in the way of me actually getting boards into production (hopefully I'll have some more time to work on it this winter), but if you'd like to have a go at building one yourself, you're welcome to! Feel...

Any off-the-shelf wifi-to-ethernet bridge should do the job there - I haven't used it personally but I gather the Vonets VAP11G is a popular and easy-to-use choice for that. The only snag is that not all wifi access points handle AppleTalk traffic correctly, so while something like that will...

Just open it up and see what’s in there, it’ll be much easier than trying to make up a disc, and if it is indeed a wild scene in there’s it’s far better to deal with it than leave it to deteriorate.

Well, that was surprisingly straightforward! The issues with the Mac environment boiled down to a permissions issue on the /etc/master.d file that describes the driver (which the Mac environment has to read in order to map slot numbers to Unix interface names). After fixing that and a bit of...

Well, I suppose it's been a while. Sorry for the radio silence. In all honesty, after the frenetic pace of getting SEthernet working and building the beta cards, I kind of burned out on it for a while there and needed to take a break. Combine that with the summer weather making me less inclined...

The weather's nice, so I brought the Basement Retrocomputing Dungeon outside

Not a Mac, but I just got a new toy from across the pond :D

I may have gotten the technical specifics of the sense code wrong in that thread, it was a while ago and I was working off of a scrawled pile of notes that I may have gotten wrong. What I *can* confirm is that the Futura SX in the IIfx that's sitting next to me right now is outputting 1024x768...

Not in the driver, unfortunately - any packets that come off the wire with a bad checksum are rejected in the ethernet controller without the driver ever being aware of them. And on the transmit side, the ethernet controller calculates the ethernet checksum at transmit time. This is convenient...

Yes, as discussed in the thread I linked in my last post, it does not use the standard monitor sense codes for 1024x768 (and 1152x870). It uses an otherwise-undocumented sense code, and the small rotary switch that's on the top edge of the card. The sense code that is required is SENSE0...