FWIW any SD issues have been fixed for a while now, please update to the latest firmware if you haven't. I was a tough one as no one could reproduce it, one out of my 50+ machines could reproduce the bug and I actually shipped it to
@Androda for analysis with his logic analyzer. No software is perfect but once we can reproduce something we'll fix it. We only had 10 people actually report any SD issues, so I don't believe it was wide spread. If you were affected I do apologize - and always a good reminder to keep backups, even when everything is working well.
I had it happen on a Quadra 650 and a Quadra 610. The 650 was the most embarrassing one, because I was borrowing it from volvo242 and checking out 8.1 versus 10.14 in a library. It lasted less than 5 minutes before nuking itself and I didn't have anything else to substitute for it. Ended being forced to loan it for a longer time, and then the logic board died of something. It would do a weird garbled bong and just stop. Cleaned the board and no change. For what it is, the Q650 has a complicated rat's nest of tiny thin traces all over the board, I pity the poor soul who has to deal with that thing if it dies because with so many traces and vias all over the place.
Still feel bad about it.
Anyways the firmware has been updated but I haven't been using any 040 machines recently. On the SE/30 and IIci it worked fine, no problems, and on the PM G3 it was fine with those, didn't have that self-nuking thing. However I do commend your efforts and once I became aware of it and had multiple nukes per day I kept ready backups and eventually stopped using the SD Card Formatter since it took too long to format it after it would nuke itself.
FWIW I bought two internal models recently because I know my HDDs are going to die eventually and with ... ahem ...
looks around Reasons, it's probably better to buy now than later, and I did look at other stuff and they're easily double the price, but maybe they're also twice as good. But for a quick storage solution, I'd say the BlueSCSI is the way to go.
RE: wifi antenna, ya, I do wish the RM2 module had a way to add some 3rd party antenna, just seems like the pi foundation isn't interested in that.
I did note in your networking guide it has some info about difficulties installing daynaport on system 6 - I'll say we've updated the docs, image, and I think it works pretty smoothly now. Most people I help are on system 6 and the real issue is MacTCP's UI elements not working as expected (or people unfamiliar with what an IP address is)
Yeah I don't know what that's about but what can you do. Embedded traces are used on your phone and all, and have been for 20 years now, they're nothing really new. I just don't use WiFi at home at all and don't need it, but it's one of those things that it's better to have and not need than the other way around.
Feel free to refer them to my guide. Even if they can't understand my 5th grade level writing "skill" there's still plenty of images and documentation that shows exactly how to set it up and what each element is.
