Recent content by croissantking

You don’t need additional cooling for a 7400/400 in a Beige G3 DT, the Power Supply fan will draw air across it adequately when the case is closed. I say this as I have a 7400/466 running at 567MHz and it doesn’t overheat.

Just noticed that this is really a switch for Quadra 840AV, not 7x00. I was wondering why it looked weird.

Down for me too.

I thought it was fairy common - I’ve seen various people mention it. In my case I’ve sometimes seen the issue appear but not consistently. What’s more annoying is the interference (like jitter) whenever a disk is accessed.

I have seen this issue on my SE/30s with Sony PSU.

I have one of these drives doing the same exact thing as the drive @phipli is diagnosing. Seems like a problem with the PCB from reading here. Maybe there is an EEPROM chip that has become corrupted and needs reflashing?

Yes

I already tried 2 different beige G3 boards… so it’s not that… Nor is it the compatibility cards… Very intriguing.

Works correctly on a B/W G3 with Mac OS 8.5.1 and v1.6.4 drivers.

I have a B&W G3 I can try it in. I'll load up 8.5 and see. Are you using PC Setup 2.1.7 on both machines? BTW I have two of these cards that are doing the same thing, which points away from it being a problem with either of the cards themselves (although it is possible).

Indeed, though physical space is of course an ever-growing concern... If anyone is successfully using one of these cards in a Beige G3, I'd be interested to know about it.

And what if said collection does not have a 7.6.1-capable PCI PowerMac? 😂 I guess I'm outta luck.

File copies in DOS are being heavily corrupted, as revealed with the fc (file compare) command. It applies equally to CD-ROM to HD, HD to HD, floppy to HD and floppy to floppy transfers. I'll try to set up a RAM disk on the PC side and see if copies work there.

I tried the Win3.1 image and to my surprise it mostly works. First boot into Win3.1 worked great but from the second attempt onwards it said that the accessories group had become missing or damaged. Seems like data corruption. Otherwise feels stable. All of the dosbench benchmarks work great...

I did try the Win98 image, that’s the one that BSOD’ed.