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Storage / Re: Adaptec PowerDomain 2940UW files are no longer available :(
« Last post by mickeyratt on Today at 08:15:26 AM »
Quote from: ssp3 on Today at 06:23:44 AM
You're welcome!  :)

That hack with the trimmed down Mac firmware to fit into smaller EEPROM was valid only for firmware version 2.5.
We, as in Mac Adaptec users, since moved to v3 firmware and then to v4 for various compatibility reasons.
Better get the new, empty EEPROM.

* I have the hacked 2.5 firmware somewhere very very deep in my archives, but believe me, it's not worth the trouble.

Thank you, you're right, it really doesn't make sense if only the old firmware has this 512k version.
I was just hoping I could save on soldering out the PLCC32 housing! :)
Fortunately, the card has the unpopulated U5 DIP socket location, so I'll put a socket there and it will be easier to replace there.

Thank You again!
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Storage / Re: Just cannot get the optical drive to work on my G4 Mac Mini 1.5Ghz.
« Last post by ssp3 on Today at 07:59:30 AM »
It's just a thought, but maybe try ROM file from v8 installer? I think ELN did more changes to v9 ROM compared to v8. There was something about ATA drivers too. Maybe they interfere?

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=2408.msg37482#msg37482
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Storage / Re: Just cannot get the optical drive to work on my G4 Mac Mini 1.5Ghz.
« Last post by fergycool on Today at 07:12:58 AM »
Thanks. That boot combination does nothing I'm afraid. For optical drives though I thought it was the old world (motorola) Macs that needed Apple firmware drives (although this is a very faint and distant memory!).
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Storage / Re: Just cannot get the optical drive to work on my G4 Mac Mini 1.5Ghz.
« Last post by ssp3 on Today at 06:36:01 AM »
Wasn't there something about internal drives requiring Apple firmware?
Back in the day we had to hack Apple's CD or CD/DVD driver to make non-Apple drives work and I also had to modify one kext in OSX in my Intel Mini to be able to use non-Apple external DVD drives.

Try booting off of CD by holding down cmd-opt-shift-delete
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Storage / Re: Adaptec PowerDomain 2940UW files are no longer available :(
« Last post by ssp3 on Today at 06:23:44 AM »
You're welcome!  :)

That hack with the trimmed down Mac firmware to fit into smaller EEPROM was valid only for firmware version 2.5.
We, as in Mac Adaptec users, since moved to v3 firmware and then to v4 for various compatibility reasons.
Better get the new, empty EEPROM.

* I have the hacked 2.5 firmware somewhere very very deep in my archives, but believe me, it's not worth the trouble.
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Storage / Re: Adaptec PowerDomain 2940UW files are no longer available :(
« Last post by mickeyratt on Today at 06:00:37 AM »
Quote from: ssp3 on Today at 05:06:27 AM
There you go.
Bear in mind that you will need a larger EEPROM for the Mac firmware. 512k vs. 1MB IIRC.
Been there, re-flashed well over 10 cards back in the day  :)

Sorry, I see that PowerDomain Utilies is also included in the hqx file! Thank you!   :)
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Storage / Re: Adaptec PowerDomain 2940UW files are no longer available :(
« Last post by mickeyratt on Today at 05:40:27 AM »
Quote from: ssp3 on Today at 05:06:27 AM
There you go.
Bear in mind that you will need a larger EEPROM for the Mac firmware. 512k vs. 1MB IIRC.
Been there, re-flashed well over 10 cards back in the day  :)

Thank You SSP3!!!

Thanks for the information as well, yes, I found information on this page:
https://web.archive.org/web/19991018203809/http://www.xlr8yourmac.com:80/tips/adaptecConvert.html

They also mentioned there some kind of modified firmware version that fits into the 512k EEPROM after the unused areas were removed, although I guess they had to adjust the addressing instructions, which is not an easy job :)

Also mentioned was the Power Domain Control Panel, which is also no longer available. If you have that available, could you share it with me?
Thank you very much!!
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Storage / Re: Adaptec PowerDomain 2940UW files are no longer available :(
« Last post by ssp3 on Today at 05:06:27 AM »
There you go.
Bear in mind that you will need a larger EEPROM for the Mac firmware. 512b vs. 1Mb IIRC.
Been there, re-flashed well over 10 cards back in the day  :)
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Storage / Adaptec PowerDomain 2940UW files are no longer available :(
« Last post by mickeyratt on Today at 03:26:32 AM »
Dear Friends

I would like to convert a PC firmware ADAPTEC AHA-2940/UW card to run under os9, but unfortunately the firmware update and powerdomain files are no longer available.
Does anyone have them saved?
Any of the following would be good:

17 Dec 1999    PowerDomain 2940UW firmware, version 4.1 - Binhex    2940UW Flash Utility 4.1 for the PowerDomain 2940UW in BinHex format
17 Dec 1999    PowerDomain 2940UW firmware, version 4.1 - MacBinary    2940UW Flash Utility 4.1 for the PowerDomain 2940UW in MacBinary format

Thank you in advance!
Best wishes: Csabi
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Storage / Just cannot get the optical drive to work on my G4 Mac Mini 1.5Ghz.
« Last post by fergycool on Today at 02:03:00 AM »
I've got a G4 Mac Mini 1.5Ghz. I have never been able to boot from the CD or indeed access a disk in it. - The only way I can eject a disk is to boot to Open Firmware and eject it there.
System Profiler always shows the disk but always without any media loaded.

At first I assumed it was because the only disks I had were 700Mb. But after sourcing some 650Mb ones they did not work either. I always get the error that the disk is not initialised.

I gave up with the optical drive at that point and eventually I got Mac OS9 installed by imaging (using iBored) the v9 install image to the internal original disk (attached) when booted from an external USB drive running OS X. Then booting from that and installing to a new IDE adaptor/mSATA disk that was temporarily connected using an USB<>IDE adaptor. Once the mSATA was installed as the internal drive this boots fine.

However, I still wanted to get the optical drive working so I replaced the original optical drive with a Panasonic UJ-875. Unfortunately as luck would have it this does not work either!

I got into thinking that it's a Master/Slave/CL thing, so messed with a tiny jumper on the IDE adaptor. But after booting in all combinations I realise that it's likely not that as the original disk had the same problem.

So before I give up ever wanting to use an optical drive in this Mac Mini is there something simple I may have done? Perhaps I've damaged the riser board that the internal and optical drive attach to?

Thanks!
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