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I Test SATA PCI Adapters So You Don't Have To - Mac PCI SATA Card Roundup

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V.Yakob:

--- Quote from: chikorita157 on June 04, 2024, 08:56:29 AM ---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.

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Ha!
BlueSCSIv2 with Pico W is a cool thing. On the PM8100/80 you mentioned, which I received not so long ago, I connected to Wi-Fi networks using SSW 7.1.2 :o I couldn't believe it myself, but the FTP client connected and worked perfectly.
Now I'm waiting for a parcel with Nubus SCSI Card ATTO Express IV to then connect BlueSCSIv2 to work at ~10 Mbps or other drives through an adapter for maximum performance.

The Rabbit Hole Computing card looks interesting, I'll definitely try it later. Thank you!
Such a board may be more interesting than the "classic" sil3112 to which you need to connect an SSD drive with a SATA cable.
Especially in MDD and 9600, where you need to use long cables to connect the drive.
In my computers, I did this:

V.Yakob:
Hey!! Finally, I have boards too RHC-Sil3112.


@Chicorita157, Thanks for the hint.
Now this PM9600 looks just great!

On one of the boards, the SATA connector is not soldered very well. Soldered Manually?

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