Have you recieved your SEIV yet? Is it a micronet card like mine?
Any luck updating its bios to a proper ATTO bios?
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I recently got a Micronet oem version of the ATTO Silicon Express IV card on
ebay. The Micronet firmware allows the card to be bootable, but is very very
buggy. It causes my 840av to lock up a lot and is driving me up the wall.
Speed on the card is excellent, with 17.6 MB/s transfers, but that speed is
useless if the system keeps crashing.
Anybody know a way to reflash the card to the ATTO firmware? I have the
1.6.5 ATTO firmware update, but when I run it, it cannot find any ATTO cards
(Micronet firmware removes that name). If I tell the ATTO updater to
manually update the nubus slot its in, the updater crashes... ATTO tech
support gave me the cold shoulder and said they don't support old products
like that anymore. I emailed Micronet, but they haven't answered, and I
can't find any firmware updates on their website.
If anybody has any idea's for help, I would appreciate it.
Did you get that from Macguy10 or something similar? I just bought one on Ebay but it won't arrive for several days. I don't recall anything in the item description saying it had Micronet firmware though I might have skimmed over that.
Anyway, if it is the same deal, I will work on a brute force hardware solution and if it works, I'll let you know. Many times these flashers will work if the Flash chip is blank, but not if it has other firmware on board. I can desolder the flash chip, store it's current contents to disk on my EEPROM programmer, erase the chip, and then reinstall the chip to see if the Atto flasher will work on a blank chip. If it won't work on a blank chip, we'll need to see if we can hack the firmware resource out of the Atto Firmware updater.
Jeff Walther
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