If you look in the profiler, if the card is an original Beige G3 card, it will report it as an Apple53C875Card. Once it's patched with the OS9Forever software, it will identify its true self as an ATTO Express PCI PSC card. The OS9Forever site recommends that you unhook any drives from the card you are going to patch. Since you are booting off another SCSI drive that shouldn't be a problem. I think you need to be in OS 9 to use the patch. The firmware is very simple to apply. One thing though, it takes probably 20 seconds to install the firmware and there is no indication that it is doing anything. Just give it time. Once it's done you can go to ATTO's site and download their new drivers (version 3.20), the configuration tool (2.61), and firmware (1.66) at this site:
http://www.attotech.com/software/driver8.html
The new driver is for OSX. I installed the firmware update (1.66) from X. I don't recall if it can be installed from 9.
My Beige was really unreliable with this card in OSX until I installed the patch and then upgraded the firmware and drivers. It's been very dependable since then. I'm booting OS X Panther with XPostfacto off this SCSI card.
John Slavin
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In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Michael Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Difficulties with ATTO ExpressPCI SCSI card Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:48:48 -0400
I'm tempted. However, the card in question is not necessarily original with this machine (it came from out of the blue), and it slipped my mind when posting that the beiges - at least some of them, anyway - came with a SCSI card. The few beiges I have seen are all bereft thereof...
If it comes to it, I'll try this tack, though.
Another item I forgot to mention - but can't immediately see as critical, although it might be - is that I'm booting from another SCSI drive on the on-board SCSI bus. In all I've read over the years, I haven't come across any reference to there being a mutually-exclusive arrangement for PCI-based SCSI and on-board SCSI. Disabuse welcome, if necessary.
On 3-Oct-04, at 4:23 PM, Maxwell Cabral wrote:
If ATTO's OS 9 Flasher won't work, try using the flasher available at www.os9forever.com/SCSICard.html within OS 9. If that works, then use ATTO's OS 9 flasher.
John Slavin Kirksville, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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