<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings Shopdog ( + )!( + )<div><br></div><div>Have you contacted Acard for the latest "firmware" updates?</div><div>ABAIR I had a similar problem with mine and got an update and everything works okay.</div><div>I have a "Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA66 PCI IDE Controller Card" and my firmware revision level is "ROM Revision: 4.5.0"</div><div>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 <a href="mailto:support@sonnettech.com">support@sonnettech.com</a> and let them know your problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Harry</div><div>-</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On Oct 15, 2008, at 8:09 AM, <a href="mailto:shopdog@mac.com">shopdog@mac.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>All:<br><br>I recently installed an Acard AEC-6280M IDE card in my G4 (AGP Graphics).<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Is this normal, or is the card bad, or is there something else that is wrong.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>shopdog<br>_______________________________________________<br>G4 mailing list<br><a href="mailto:G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>