Primarily in reference to refinery’s quest.
Can’t locate exact PCI voltage requirements for a G3 400* MHz MiniTower. (*As noted in your profile “Signature” line.) Is that the spec for your machine? (Overclocked?) Anyway…
Resurrected the Beige G3 9600/300 here yesterday and it has the AFW-2100/DELL RoHS dual Firewire 400 card (Dell Adaptec-2100 / Agere chipset) inside. It’s a two-notch card and works well with no extraneous (or extra) Adaptec drivers / enablers present. In this case, running OS 9.2.2… the 9600 does have FireWire Enabler 2.85 and FireWire Support 2.8.5 present and enabled. Someone here previously mentioned the 2.8.7 versions of both these. Maybe… try a “fall back” to these versions or maybe even try the Dell Adaptec-2100 card?
If you’d like to try this card, cover postage both ways and I’ll lend it to you to test. That is… unless someone is absolutely certain that your machine must have a one-notch card. PM me your address if you’d like to try this one. And this card occupies the very last (bottom) PCI slot in this 9600 (also built in 1997).
Other FW 400 cards tested today:
LSI processor (no name) one-notch - powers up and mounts FW400 drive / Unknown chipset - LSI?
Keyspan FPCI-3 one notch - powers up / no mount / TI chipset
Radius Firewire PCI 2330 two notch - zip, zero, nada… nothing / TI chipset
Adaptec FW-USB Combo two notch - powers up and mounts FW - Provides USB power / TI chipset
After testing the Adaptec Combo, tested other USB cards. None of which recognized either an Apple A1152 or M4848 mouse (with or without USB Overdrive enabled). Nor were any thumb drives successfully mounted or recognized. The A1152 mouse "lit up" but did not “function”. I didn’t really investigate any further or try installing any other drivers or mount approaches. All two-notch cards.
Belkin 4-port - Lucent chip
AUA-2000B 2-port - NEC chip
Generic USB 2.0 Host Card 4 port - V/A chip
Generic USB 2.0 card didn’t work in a G3? No real surprise there…
whereas the Adaptec Combo with the (normally more Mac-friendly) TI chip
did surprise me... because it wasn’t so “friendly” when previously tested in an MDD.
So refinery, if you want to try the "Dell Adaptec-2100" or the LSI... just LMK.