Radius Rocket on its way!

[Huxley]

Hi guys!

I'm my quest to upgrade the hell out of my recently-aquired Mac IIfx, I just won an auction for a Radius Rocket card!

I don't know the exact specs yet, but the seller offered to load it with 32 megs of RAM for me, which is nice. I'll be sure to post again once it arrives!

;-)

Huxley ( from my iPhone )

 

[equill]

This one, presumably. I watched the auction with interest, but the price went further than I chose to pay for a third Rocket. May you enjoy.

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[Huxley]

Hi again, guys!

I was totally caught off-guard last night when I got an automated email from eBay informing me that I'd won another auction, this time for a NuBus Jackhammer card!

I'd spotted the card days ago, and put in a low-ball bid ($11), but I certainly didn't expect to win the auction for only $10!

I suspect that the card being primarily listed in the "Musical Instruments" (?!) category might have played a part, but nonetheless, I'm psyched to have won such a cool card for my IIfx!

Having never used one before, I'll have a bunch of questions, I'm sure. I'm going to try using it with the SCSI-to-IDE adapter I bought here a while back, connected to a (relatively) fast modern drive. If I can get it all straightened out, it should be a screamer, esp. when mated to that Rocket card.

Do the Jackhammer cards need special drivers or formatting before they'll work?



Huxley

 

[Unknown_K]

The drivers are located online, any softare should be able to see drives to format them.

I scanned my FWB Jackhammer manual into a 5-6GB PDF file if you want it PM me.

 

[macintoshman]

6gb PDF file?

How long is that manual?

Well, that is a really cool conquest. I had a dream of having 3 Radius Rockets in my quadra. too bad it wont happen.

 

[Huxley]

The drivers are located online, any softare should be able to see drives to format them.
I scanned my FWB Jackhammer manual into a 5-6GB PDF file if you want it PM me.

Cool, thanks for the info! Have any of you ever used one of the SCSI-to-IDE adapters with a Jackhammer? I'm curious what kind of performance boost I might get...



Huxley

 

[Unknown_K]

I use normal 50/68 pin drives with my jackhammers (think I have 3 or 4 Jackhammers and 3 SEIVs).

 

[Unknown_K]

The manual is only 24 pages but I kept the color cover page, did ocr so it is searchable, and probably used too high of a DPI.

 

[OtakuMegane]

Have any of you ever used one of the SCSI-to-IDE adapters with a Jackhammer? I'm curious what kind of performance boost I might get...


Huxley

I haven't used them with a Jackhammer specifically but theoretically they ought to work with any SCSI system since no drivers are needed. Any overhead is negligible, so whatever the normal performance of the drive is, is what you should get, up to the limits of the Jackhammer. It had Fast/Wide (20MB/s) as its best, which is not far from the limits the IIfx Nubus can do anyway.