hey guys
jsut a friendly reminder
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Sure enough, it worked in a PC I slotted it into and the bios number confirmed Windows only. The seller linked me to the Amazon dealer he had bought it from (long out of stock) and that indicated a Mac/Win card. The seller used it with Linux and knows nothing about Macs, nor had he changed the firmware. Sonnet's site only has a couple of Mac firmware updates for this card but neither sees the card when installed in a Mac.
what bios number? how did you confirm that it is windows only?
because, according to this info, id say its most likely that the card is compatible with both macs + pcs
judging by looking at the pci connectors and the fact that it has 2 notches
and the fact u said you were putting it into an older scsi powermac
there maybe a problem with power voltage to the card, as the older machines
provide 5v to pci cards? i think? and the pci v2.1 cards (with 2 notches in card)
can take 3.3v to power the card... this could be a reason.. im not saying it *IS*
for sure because i dont know all the details yet. but i would reccommend you hold
off on trying to flash the card, i think its very unlikely that someone would have had
to have tampered/rewrote/reflashed the card to some other firmware - why? - simply because it was never neccesssary to do so in the first place because the card was already compatible with both.
im not 100% certain of the details
or when the "Cut off" time was but i remember personally
that pci spec became an issue for me around the time of 2003-2004
just when the powermac G5 came on the scene..
anyway it might be that u have a system that is only capable of providing 5v to the card
and you have a card that requires a higher level of pci revision conformity? that is.. the card wants to be powered with 3.3v of juice and its getting 5v... now in the electricians world it might be ok to run a card with a bit of extra juice but in the computer world its not a match; im not 100% certain this is the problem just trying to add to the info here to help u figure this out
http://pcisig.comthis site has info on the pci revision details
actually no this is all about pci-express not pci
oops
need more input:
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempohd.html https://www.cnet.com/products/sonnet-tempo-hd-hard-drive-20-gb-ata-133/specs/ https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/3485682/Sonnet-Tempo-HD-PCI-Card/pertinent details please! rather than having us all guess..
how about you let us know which "all SCSI PowerMac" it is that you are trying to use this card inside of? a "real photo" of the "Actual" card you have wouldnt hurt either if you want help figuring this out, give us something to work with here;)
you may want to come up with an alternate plan tho because this card does not seem to be bootable at all
its meant as a secondary storage solution
not primary.. its not meant to be a boot drive for an older system
it cant be used to boot macos 9 so im not sure what u are doing with it!
its kind of a waste of a whole pci slot aswell.. (you only have so many!)
i think u would find that;
if you were to install this card in ANOTHER system
that has a pre-existing boot drive booting the system,
that you would see the drive once you are booted up,
this adapter is not bootable on mac!
meanwhile it probably boots just fine on a pc
you will need to get a different solution i think