WiteWulf Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Hi all, I've got an old PCI Promise Fasttrack 100 TX2, it's an ATA100 dual-interface IDE card from a PC with the Promise PDC20268 chip on it. This is the same chip as Sonnet use in the Tempo ATA100 card and I've been trying to get it to work in my 2001 Quicksilver (10.4.8). The card is listed int he PCI devices list in System Profiler but I get no further than that. Obviously the card still has a PC firmware on it, I've found a firmware updater on the Sonnet site but it requires OS 8 or 9 to run and I thought I'd sound this out with you guys before I go to the trouble of installing another OS on something just to brick the card (which, tbh, I'm not all that worried about doing). If anyone's had any experience of this I'd appreciate being told that I'm wasting my time or otherwise Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43006-sonnet-tempo-ata100promise-fasttrak100-drivers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwinn555 Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Some one I know used to do this and sell the cards on ebay to make a little extra money. The owner of the Mac firmware (Firmtec I think) contacted him and made him stop. I'm going by memory for what that's worth . I seem to remember he had to change the firmware chip because the Mac was larger then the PC firmware. As with a Video card trying to flash a file too large to fit will leave the card unusable . It would likely require a chip change to fix it.The chips are soldiered on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43006-sonnet-tempo-ata100promise-fasttrak100-drivers/#findComment-307308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiteWulf Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 Ah, cheers Schwinn. I've got a PC ATI card in the same machine with a reduced Mac firmware on it that works a treat but this sounds a bit too much like hard work if I'm gonna have to put a new flash chip on it as my soldering skills are less than l33t Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43006-sonnet-tempo-ata100promise-fasttrak100-drivers/#findComment-307350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiteWulf Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share Posted February 21, 2007 UPDATE: It looks like that shareware firmware from Firmtek was only for the old ATA66 cards. All things considered, it's going to be cheaper and less hassle to just get an external firewire enclosure and a big IDE disk for the machine Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43006-sonnet-tempo-ata100promise-fasttrak100-drivers/#findComment-308080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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