PCI ATA100 card, driver needed?

[thatsteve]

Hello. I recently acquired a Promise Technology "fastTrak100 TX2" PCI ATA card and I want to use it in my PM 9600 with a IDE-CF card adapter. However, I'm not sure if these are "plug n play" or need drivers? Google isn't immediately availing me of the info, so any ideas? I stuck it in a PCI slot and hooked the CF board to it and nada.

It's ths card, BTW: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/storage-champions,380-4.html

Cheers!

S

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Hook a standard, bootable IDE HDD from another Mac temporarily. Dollars to doughnuts it'll be mounted as a bootable drive. I've got three or four IDE/ATA PCI Cards of various flavors and have never needed a driver.

 

[waynestewart]

Interesting. It's identical part for part with my Sonnet Tempo ATA133 card. It also has a Promise chip. From the pic I couldn't read the chip part numbers to compare those. For what it's worth my card didn't want to work with a CF card. I didn't experiment a whole lot as I tried a Sonnet ATA66 card and it worked well with a CF in my 9600. It's a very different design.

 

[trag]

I think the FastTrak 100 has an internal EEPROM with either the PC or the Mac code on board. With the EEPROM internal, reprogramming it is problematical. I've never heard of anyone converting one of these cards.

The Acard 6280M is fairly cheap on Ebay these days -- less than $20 pretty often. The 6880M and 6290M turn up as well (ATA RAID, SATA non-RAID).