[G4] Acard AEC-6280M Boot

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings Shopdog ( + )!( + )

Have you contacted Acard for the latest "firmware" updates?
ABAIR I had a similar problem with mine and got an update and  
everything works okay.
I have a "Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA66 PCI IDE Controller Card" and my  
firmware revision level is  "ROM Revision: 4.5.0"
I know your going to say that yours is an "Acard" however Sonnet is  
the same as the Acard (card) so you should send an eMail to support at sonnettech.com 
  and let them know your problem.

Best regards,

Harry
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On Oct 15, 2008, at 8:09 AM, shopdog at mac.com wrote:

> All:
>
> I recently installed an Acard AEC-6280M IDE card in my G4 (AGP  
> Graphics).
>
> I'm having frequent issues with not being able to boot from drives  
> connected to the card bus.  So much so that I have reverted to  
> simply booting from a drive attached to the native bus where the Zip  
> drive had been attached, and using the Acard-connected drives as  
> storage.
>
> If I try to boot from an Acard-connected drive, the drive will  
> occasionally boot, but 9/10 times the system hangs right after the  
> grey apple appears on the screen.  I have tried this with more than  
> one drive, so it is not the drive, as far as I can tell.
>
> Is this normal, or is the card bad, or is there something else that  
> is wrong.
>
> Thanks!
>
> shopdog
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