Short answer: no.
After looking at the Sonnet Tempo 2 channal PCI SATA quick user guide and found that the newest OS mentioned in it was 10.3 while all the tests I've done were on 10.4.11 and 10.5.8. So I tried connecting two drives to the card and booted into OS 9.
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No. If you want OS9 support you need to flash it with the SeriTek firmware and for that you will need to modify the card with specific chips. The Wiebetech firmwares are strictly OS X only.
You should be able to extract the 'NDRV' from the Seritek firmware and package it as a disk based driver for the classic Mac OS, or you could simply load it in Open Firmware each boot from disk.
For a list of devices on the PCI bus:
dev pci1 ls
dev pci2 ls
devaliasdev pci/@x
boot hd:,\SerilTek.txt
.properties
boot hd:,\\:tbxiThat is for booting right? I am not interested in booting classic off the sata drive at the moment. I would have to install or clone os9 to another sata disk and install it in my g3 and i dont want to do that right now. You mentioned using the firmware to create a disk based driver, what exactly does that mean and how would i go about doing it. If getting classic to see the sata disk as storage requires replacing the flash chip or i have to type open firmware commands every time it is not worth it to me to do and i will just use an external firewire drive for more storage.
This loads the 'NDRV' into the device tree, the Mac OS ROM will copy the .properties( assuming you're on New World? ) and the disks should work with the classic Mac OS, no need to boot from the drive.
I think there might be a flaw in this plan unless you can work out how to bypass the hardware check inside the FirmTek firmware. No one else has managed it, not even SATAman.
It's pretty easy to reduce the FrmTek firmware to fit a smaller flashrom chip, any who we can leverage the NVRAMRC to automate the Open Firmware commands to load the 'NDRV' on each boot, makes booting seamless and still allows booting from attached SATA drives of you chose. Just if you zap the PRAM it' would be necessary to re write the script to the NVRAMRC, however, if you use something like XPOSTFACTO or any other tool that writes to the NVRAMRC it would get overwritten.
The SeriTek/FirmTek firmware has an inbuilt hardware check. It can only be flashed onto 3 specific ROM chips. Flashrom is the only carrier for flashing onto 3rd party cards. When it loads the firmware, the firmware does a check on the card. If it doesn't detect any of the 3 chips, no flashing will occur. It's not like the Wiebetech firmware where you can just delete a load of zeroes from the end to trim it to size. The firmware, I believe, is encrypted but I haven't opened it up to look.
Ok, now I remember reading that before, thanks for clarifying and not making me search;-)
Two other options: An ATA PCI card. Sonnets come up every now and then and should be half the price of a SATA card or less. Alternatively, you could dip your feet into SCSI. My B/W had a SCSI card inside.
Is there a file download url you want me to look at? I would just use the methods discussed in https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...se-cards-flashing-quest.2331218/post-30827719
IFS=$'\n'
for thefile in $(find /Volumes/Classic/System\ Folder/Extensions -type f); do
thetype="$(xattr -p com.apple.FinderInfo $thefile)"
printf "%4s:%4s \"%s\"\n" "${thetype:0:4}" "${thetype:4:4}" "$thefile"
done | sortSeriTek/1S2 5.1.3
I tried that, and it doesn't work with just a data fork for the 9200 mobility in my iBook G4 under OS 9, but I'm pretty sure I can hack together a resource fork if we can properly format the data fork.