I'm curious if anyone has flashed a VST UltraTek ATA/66 card with the firmware that makes it OS X compatible? ( http://eshop.macsales.com/VST/ ) If so how was the performance of the card afterwards? Anyone have it installed on a Beige?
I want to move my card from an 8500 running OS 9.1 to my Beige MT rev.1 w/ 10.2.8. I'm cautious because my Beige freaks out easily when introduced to new hard drives and/or controllers. It does not take easily to change without a lot of mucking around.
My card was modified from a Promise card to VST but the flash ROM chip was retained and not replaced with an EPROM as some card modifiers did. If the performance of the card after the update proves flakey I'll probably elect to just leave it in the 8500, which is kind of a waste since it doesn't get used that much.But I'm also not interested in spending more (than the ridiculous amount I already have) on the beige for a new OS X ATA controller. I'll just stick with the onboard ATA and SCSI card controller.
Thanks, Mike
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