Sonnet Tempo ATA/133 7.6?

[LCARS]

After years of being dormant, my 8600 is happily running 7.6.1 (and displayed via DVI). It is a fantastic machine that feels like a System 7 powerhouse. But on to my topic- I have a Sonnet ATA/133 PCI card that I would like to use with a OWC Legacy SSD. The manual states that 8.0 is the lowest OS. As I understand it, HFS+ was not rolled out until 8.1, which makes me think that 7.6 should be viable. Unless there is some other controller extension issue. Perhaps a patch?

Has anyone used such a card with 7.6? Here is the manual if anyone is interested: Tempo ATA 133

 

[jeremywork]

I don't have this exact configuration, but I have a Sonnet Tempo Trio in my 9600, and can boot to the 7.6.1 partition on an ATA drive attached to it (it's a 2GB Mac OS Standard partition, not sure if larger would work.) I would expect the Tempo ATA 133 uses the same implementation and will probably have similar boot support.

 

[LCARS]

That's good to hear! Thank you for the information. If it can boot from the ATA drive, it seems like a go to be used for storage. Out of curiosity, what does 7.6.1 make of the USB & Firewire aspects of the Trio card?

 

[jeremywork]

That's good to hear! Thank you for the information. If it can boot from the ATA drive, it seems like a go to be used for storage. Out of curiosity, what does 7.6.1 make of the USB & Firewire aspects of the Trio card?

There's really no USB support before 8.1 (8.5 for more complete support with mass storage) but I believe firewire can be used for DV in 7.6.1 with the correct quicktime extensions. 8.6 is required for full firewire support, including mass storage. These extensions come with Mac OS 9, but can be manually installed on earlier systems.

 

[LCARS]

Ah that's right! I did forget that DV via FireWire did fall under the Reign of 7. As long as the card doesn't crash 7.6.1, dual booting 7 & 8, with 8 being the mass storage OS, is a functional idea.