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I Test SATA PCI Adapters So You Don't Have To - Mac PCI SATA Card Roundup
refinery:
Holy smokes, that's cool.
chikorita157:
It’s been a while since I haven’t done much with Vintage Macs, until a few months ago when I discovered the BlueSCSI. Since I need a system that can run Mac OS 7, the Power Macintosh 8100 led me to find a Power Computing PowerCenter 150 and a Power Macintosh 9600, which is probably the grail of the beige Power Macintosh as they go for ridiculous prices. Managed to find a 9600 that needs some work to get running, but the focus will be on the Mac clone since it’s a more interesting “Mac.”
That said, I finally caught up with the developments and apparently Dosdude1 managed to reduce the size of the ROM and also make the flasher program work on any EPROM chip. I found out the Rabbit Hole Computing Hard Card PCI card and bought one for the Power Computing clone, and it was easy to flash. All you need to do is install it in a Power Mac, run the patched flasher, flash the card and you have a working card. It comes with a 256 GB SSD, which makes the $89 price tag worth it as one does not having to do any modifications to the card to make it work.
My review on the card is over at:
https://amausaan.tokyo/rabbit-hole-computing-hard-card-impressions-the-easiest-to-flash-sata-m-2-sata-pci-card-to-make-it-mac-os-9-or-earlier-bootable/
I do plan to have a retro site which should have all the blog posts relating to retro macs in the near future.
IIO:
--- Quote from: refinery on March 28, 2024, 04:10:39 PM ---Holy smokes, that's cool.
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it is great to have yet another solution, but otoh, for me an SATA 300 card with 4 ports would be more interesting.
aBc:
Hey chikorita!
Where ya been?
Very nice to see you back and really appreciate the info on the Rabbit Hole Computing
hard card (especially for those here unwilling or unable to produce or acquire other
similar, related solutions). And of course you know I have questions.😉
1. Does it come with that KingSpec M.2 (256 GB?) as pictured on your link above?
2. Any chance of QuickBench 2.0 (20-100 MB) benchmark result,
similar to yours previously pictured above from an MDD… from your 9600, etc.?
3. Is same hard card suitable for use in a B&W, Quicksilver and or MDDs?
(Or even other beige-ish machines?)
Inquiring minds quite simply want to know. Thanks!
*Some additional, related links:
https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/what-happened-with-firmtek.47473/#post-534090
https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/sata-in-an-old-world-pci-power-mac-impossibru-updated-11-22-23.1494/
DieHard:
It would be great to have some speed tests done on the Rabbit Hole card for both the SATA M.2 and an SSD in the 2.5" SATA
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