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Radius Rocket Experts - is this possible?
- Thread starter Brooklyn
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Short-n-sweet . . . maybe not so sweet . . .
Radius Rocket Guide/Troubleshooting Thread
. . . since both cards are butt ugly system hacks by their very nature . . .
. . . I'm guessing no chance, but check out the Q&A in the RocketProject, one never knows . . .
. . . until they do.
G-R-E-A-T Avatar! I finally figured out what it was! Which Roman Numeral?
Radius Rocket Guide/Troubleshooting Thread
. . . since both cards are butt ugly system hacks by their very nature . . .
. . . I'm guessing no chance, but check out the Q&A in the RocketProject, one never knows . . .
. . . until they do.
G-R-E-A-T Avatar! I finally figured out what it was! Which Roman Numeral?
You know, I never tried that with my IIci when I had a PPC card. You can always just install the card and find out.
The only problem is that on my IIci, I couldn't even get it to work with no accelerator and minimum RAM. The power supply just wasn't powerful enough anymore. Required an ATX conversion just to get them going.
Incidentally, that's Roman Numeral IV.
The only problem is that on my IIci, I couldn't even get it to work with no accelerator and minimum RAM. The power supply just wasn't powerful enough anymore. Required an ATX conversion just to get them going.
Incidentally, that's Roman Numeral IV.
Don't bother, olePigeon wouldn't listen when I told him my 7100 PSU wouldn't work for him, but he just had to try . . .
. . . listen up, trooper, oleRocketBird knows stuff!
Don't figure on using anything higher than 7.1 Pro with a Rocket, read the Q&A, then you'll know stuff too.
. . . listen up, trooper, oleRocketBird knows stuff!
Don't figure on using anything higher than 7.1 Pro with a Rocket, read the Q&A, then you'll know stuff too.
Yeah. The 7100 technically had 40 more watts, but even that thing was too old to provide enough juice. You're really going to want to convert it to ATX. It's so easy even I could do it. And if you get some wire nuts, it's even a solderless mod. If you decide to use a soldering iron, you could add an ON/OFF switch like I did. Then it makes it like an LC. I couldn't get the soft power to work, though.
You just get an ATX PSU that's roughly the same size, take out the innards, then match up the wires using a simple diagram. I got mine for free out of an old Dell computer heading to the recycling.
I only now just realized that it looks like there could be enough room for 2 HDDs in the IIci HDD bracket. With an ATX mod, you could split the +5v and power 2 HDDs, then RAID them.
I'm going to revisit my IIci soon. I seem to recall when I was first fiddling around with it, I had it running on 7.5.5 with MacTCP. I'll give it another go. I do believe that the Rocket Disk itself has to be 7.1. So leave it as is when it creates your first rocket disk.
You just get an ATX PSU that's roughly the same size, take out the innards, then match up the wires using a simple diagram. I got mine for free out of an old Dell computer heading to the recycling.
I only now just realized that it looks like there could be enough room for 2 HDDs in the IIci HDD bracket. With an ATX mod, you could split the +5v and power 2 HDDs, then RAID them.
I'm going to revisit my IIci soon. I seem to recall when I was first fiddling around with it, I had it running on 7.5.5 with MacTCP. I'll give it another go. I do believe that the Rocket Disk itself has to be 7.1. So leave it as is when it creates your first rocket disk.
Did you use an inverter on the soft-power-on wire? Of the ATX and old style Mac power supplies, one of them uses 5V as the power-on signal and the other uses GND as the power-on signal. I can't remember which is which, but you need an inverter on that wire to make it work, if you switch from one to the other.
You Radius nuts is just crazy, man. :
Hey, I resemble that remark! 
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Way to go Brooklyn! I wonder if that'd work in my Radius 81/110? }
Speaking of Radius . . . which of their Video Cards do you have in there?
) Way to go Brooklyn! I wonder if that'd work in my Radius 81/110? }
Speaking of Radius . . . which of their Video Cards do you have in there?
Ooo, very nice! So why all the pickiness over just System 7.1? I thought I had it running 7.5 when I was first fiddling with it, and it looks like it's running on 7.6. Are we confusing what the host machine runs and what the Rocket runs? Maybe with RocketShare, the host machine can run 7.6, so long as the Rocket is running 7.1.
