Why nobody published the firmware from http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_serial_ata.html?
We would be so happy with cheap SIL3112 working on OS9 as all MacRumors PowerPC users do...
Maybe some of our users have the sonnet and have the time to take it to a PC and SAVE the firmware for US
Wishfull thinking...
way to highjack my thread and change the subject:P lol
i have this 1s2 rom . i already posted it here on the forums..
but the problem is that it doesnt fit in the flash chip for most cards
its on another thread im pretty sure i attached it to the thread as a file
like i wrote in the above thread u linked to..
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=825.0the reason the firmware is too big to fit on the bios chip is because it contains kexts for mac os x
as well as os 9... like i was saying if this firmware could be reduced somehow
and have the mac osx stuff removed then it could be small enough to fit on a chip
and provide mac os 7/8/9 boot without the bloat of size thanks to the mac os x parts
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=825.msg3082#msg3082as max said.. this rom firmware also has some failsafes to make sure that it
is running off the real card.. to check the brand of the chip.. so if u put it on a different
type chip then it will not work becausethere is code to protect itself form being copied
and duplicated easily.. so to do this the firmware would have to be really hacked...
by someone skilled in embedded systems
enough of that topic.. u can write in that thread for that topic.
this thread... is supposed to be about finding SIL cards or other cards that wil still work for
mac os volumes without boot
for data drives.. recording drives.. esata ports etc why?? because the firmtek card is 140$
for the 4 port 64 bit cards.. thats why.. theres other 64bit 4 port cards that are under 50$
that may work for adding drives to g4 systems... with great speed + performance.. just not booting
so lets find them
ps the roms files are here:
http://www.macos9lives.com/downloads/public/seritek/in case anyone wants to try to reverse engineer
one thing that perplexed me tho is the fact that the 64bit wide pci cards dont have
this same firmware chip that is on the 32bit pci models, so how do these cards get flashed the firmware update?