Looking for Mathey Msata-13UMAC aka Macsense SUA-100E (Via Chipset)

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if there is anyone who can speak japanese or chinese and can help me to find one of these cards
it would be very much appreciated as there are many of these cards available for cheap
if we could find the firmware from jjust ONE single card we could posibly make many os9 booting cards as a result

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/1PC-New-3-Port-SATA-IDE-Serial-HDD-ATA-PCI-Card-VIA-VT6421A/153290670521?hash=item23b0d601b9:g:wpMAAOSw0YlcBlJf

cards are still able to be purchased at 6$ each cost from china
if we could only find a copy of the firmware of this one mathey card

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http://www.macsense.com/product/storage/sua-100e.html
found another clone of this card



https://www.cnet.com/products/macsense-sua-100e-storage-controller-ata-sata-1-5gb-s-pci/
http://www.dlttape.net/products1/SUA-100E.html

FEATURES

• Supports both Serial ATA and Ultra ATA emerging technologies
• Compatible with most PCI Power Macintosh and Mac Clones

• Boots from any attached hard drives

• 48-bit LBA support for hard drives larger than 137GB

• Maximum data transfer rate of 1.5Gbps (150MB/s) on Serial ATA connection

• Maximum data transfer rate of 133MB/s on Ultra ATA connection

• Add up to 2 internal Serial ATA hard drives

• Add up to 2 internal ATA/IDE hard drives

• Co-exits with on board SCSI and IDE Devices

• PCI and PCI-X bus compatible

• Supports Mac OS 8.1.x through Mac OS X 10.4

• Supports Apple Drive Setup Utility (V. 1.5 or later)

[macStuff]

closely examining an older thread here on the board shows that there was a user named APFEL who said he had one of these cards
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,2023.msg27423.html#msg27423
he referred to the card as a "Macally" card

Tested with:
- Sonnet 2x2 SATA-II PCI (SIL3124 chip), bootable
- "PC"-4xSATA-PCI-X card (SIL3124) with Mac drivers, not bootable
- Macally 2xSATA intern, 1x SATA extern, 1x IDE intern, PCI 32bit, bootable

Max1zzz and I were looking desperately for this card a few years ago to get the firmware off it

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https://www.ebay.ie/itm/4-Port-SATA-PCI-Expansion-Card-IDE-VIA-VT6421a-chipset-S3R6/283481030859?hash=item4200c940cb:g:NIwAAOSwI8lc1n4~

available for under $10 on ebay

someone obviously has got these to work/boot mac os 9 before so its verified/confirmed that its POSSIBLE
but unknown as to what type of effort it would take to achieve that


https://www.viatech.com/en/silicon/legacy/peripherals/sata-raid/vt6421a/
http://spacehopper.org/mirrors/ftp.vtbridge.org/Docs/Storage/DS_VT6421A_100_CCPL.PDF
http://www.macsense.com/product/storage/sua-100e.html
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/VIA-VT6421L-QFP/362274238229?hash=item54593a2f15:g:oQsAAOxy63FS8aYk
http://www.macsense.com/product/images/SUA-100E.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/20060312072340/http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/Macsense_SUA-100E_card.html
https://www.amazon.com/SATA-Combo-Card-Drivers-Ultra/dp/B000ANOXBE?ref=pf_vv_at_pdctrvw_dp

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http://www.projovian.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20070629172747/http://www.projovian.com/index.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070711121718/http://www.projovian.com/sua100/index.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070714020032/http://www.projovian.com/sua100/spec.html

Specifications
Supports Mac OS X System RAID
Ultra ATA133 interface support two enhanced IDE Hard Drives (Master/Slave mode)
2-Port Serial ATA connectors supports up to two SATA Hard Drives
Power-Sync DC Jack: +5V/1.35A, +12V/1.35A
Fully Compliant with Serial ATA V.1.0
PCI and PCI-X bus compatible
Software
Operating System Mac OS 8.1 - 9.x & 10.x
Bootable from attached dirves
Hardware
32 bit, 33/66 MHz PCI
Comply with PCI Bus Revision 2.2
Serial ATA drive mode supported
Support Ultra ATA 133/100/66 hard drives
Power Consumption
3.3V for PCI and IDE operation
2.5V for Oscillator and Serial ATA operation
Environment Specs
Operating Temperature: 0~55°C (32 ~ 131°F)
Operating Humidity: 10% ~ 90% relative humidity (non-condensing)
Storage Temperature: -20~75°C (-4 ~ 1671°F)
Storage Humidity: 5% ~ 95% relative humidity (non-condensing)

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does anyone else know APFEL? when was he last on the forum?
i just tried to send him a PM - need to get a bios rom dump of the via chipset card he has that is mac bootable!!

its in the best interest of all macos9 users to try to track down one of these cards to retrieve the firmware rom