Mike WroteI'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?
Didn't work reliably on OS 9 or earlier ... FLASHed it back.
Hmm... I don't have the means for that option. I did not see a flasher with the older firmware available anywhere. (Unless it is v. 1.1.2w which is offered for the VST 66 RAID card).
Anyone have it installed on a Beige?
Yes.
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.
Your Beige is unstable.
The most stable Beige configuration I've found is a Rev. 3 motherboard (would, and did, have a Rev. C ROM in it, originally) with a Rev. A ROM.
Well, I have the ROM part at least :)
Deletes Slave support, but then the only drives I have on the EIDE busses are a CD-ROM-R-R/W and a DVD-ROM-R-R/W, each with a bus to itself ... everything else is UW SCSI.
Deleted code added in support of the Rage Pro chip, which actually was a fix to the Rev. B ROM.
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. The respective (PC and Mac) FLASHers are especially designed to be sensitive to the "signature" presented by the FLASH chip.
One version comes with an ATMEL 49F001 (PC); the other version comes with a Winbond 29F001 (Mac).
The FLASHers check the signature before proceeding.
I do have the ATMEL
You may have to kludge the FLASHer to accomplish your goal.
Darn! I'm not a good kludger. If the firmware update allows the card to work well in OS X then I can live with not being able to effectively use it in OS 9. Being able to flash it back would be great, though. There are other means for me to run OS 9, though. How does this card get along with your SCSI cards on your Beige? Apparently no incompatibilities for you. I have an ATTO UL2D and an Adaptec 29160. I'll probably only use the Adaptec which works fine in OS 9 and I haven't really tried experimenting with different Adaptec firmware or drivers in OS X.
Mike
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