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Orange PCware bus error

68kMLA Software 30 posts Oct 28, 2010 to Jan 30, 2021

#1 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 - 06:54 68kMLA

By luck I came across an OrangePC Nubus (can't seem to tell the model but it's a full-length card with a 100mhz DX4 on it) card and I installed it in my Quadra. I have the install disc for my OrangePCi 540 card but when I start the installer I get a bus error and the whole system restarts.

To make sure it was not the CD drive acting funny I copied the CD to the hard drive and tried again....same thing.

Is this an incompatibility with the installer or something? My only other guess is it probes the Nubus for the card and something is up with the card and it nukes the bus and kills the system.

#2 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 - 14:03 68kMLA

I think the 540 model is a Pentium PCI based one, so it would not run on a Nubus 486.

If you can take a picture of the card I might be able to help identify it. My 486-100 card has one PCMCIA slot on the end. I also have a full length 486-133 model which was the last Nubus one made I think (Model 340).

#3 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 - 19:19 68kMLA

OrangePC Nubus / install disc for my OrangePCi / bus error

... well, yeah :?:

There's a driver for their 386 card at the macdrivermuseum - try that one. If that fails, try the link at the bottom to put in a request for help to their group.

#4 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 - 08:55 68kMLA

The manual described all the cards, Nubus included. I just assumed that the actual software that managed the card would care less about the bus.

I'll try the 386 driver anyways though it just sounds pretty old.

#5 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 - 11:17 68kMLA

I just assumed that the actual software that managed the card would care less about the bus.

Uh ... why?

#6 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 - 14:01 68kMLA

I have OrangePC 486 Nubus drivers (will image the disks this weekend when I dig them out), take a pic of the card so I can see what model it is.

#7 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 - 03:46 68kMLA

You ask, I deliver.

#8 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 - 05:00 68kMLA

Yea, thats the same one in my IIfx. Hopefully tomorrow I will fire it up and grab the drivers for it.

#9 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 - 22:12 68kMLA

Sweet. Thanks.

To be sure from what I heard, the break-out cable for it was not necessary for a video output, right? I was told it only handled serial and parallel.

#10 Mon, 1 Nov 2010 - 02:27 68kMLA

Going to go look now.

Don't think that model even had a breakout cable, is there a socket for one?

Generaly you shared the Mac monitor (either in a window or full screen), on some models you could do dual monitors with the breakout cable (340 model, etc).

#11 Mon, 1 Nov 2010 - 03:08 68kMLA

There is some sort of funky connector beow the PCMCIA slot. I'm really hoping though that it can just work Windowed so I can....and you will love this...

Run a Windows 95 session on a mac, connected to using VNC, from SoftWindows 95, running on an SGI.

#12 Mon, 1 Nov 2010 - 06:11 68kMLA

The files are a few MB, so I need someplace to dump them. I grabbed the 200 series and 300 series a while ago. Can you setup an FTP by chance?

#13 Mon, 1 Nov 2010 - 09:34 68kMLA

Send them to the Mac Driver Museum instead/as well; they don't have them there.

#14 Tue, 2 Nov 2010 - 13:43 68kMLA

I can offer my services. PM Me and I will give you an FTP login and put it up on an HTTP page

#15 Wed, 3 Nov 2010 - 04:29 68kMLA

That would be appreciated Coius. I don't currently have a system setup for FTP yet.

#16 Wed, 3 Nov 2010 - 21:53 68kMLA

I gave Unknown_K an upload account. Once it's uploaded, I will put it in the appropriate location and put it up on my webserver for you to get. Also, I will post a direct download link in this post

#17 Wed, 3 Nov 2010 - 22:51 68kMLA

ftp://coius.info/Download/Mac/Drivers/orange_micro/

I will put a link for it up on my web page (hosted on a powerbook 540)

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#18 Thu, 4 Nov 2010 - 01:03 68kMLA

Nice one coius. If you could forward it on to macdrivermuseum, I reckon that would be great for everyone

#19 Thu, 4 Nov 2010 - 01:33 68kMLA

How do I do that? I can't find a place to send it to. No email/etc..?

I also don't use Yahoo! Groups. I would recommend more someone else who can do it. Just go ahead and download it for it to be sent.

#20 Thu, 4 Nov 2010 - 01:41 68kMLA

They have a file size limit which is why I didn't dump the RARs there myself (directory created).

#21 Thu, 4 Nov 2010 - 02:06 68kMLA

Well, it's now up on my personal website (links on the powerbook, files hosted off of my Win2k3 server)

this is the link:

http://coius.info:8080/software.html

#22 Thu, 4 Nov 2010 - 04:36 68kMLA

Not to nitpick but might it be available in something a bit more friendly of a format? MacRAR can't make any sense of the file after Netscape spits it out and unpacking it on a PC and moving it to the mac kills the resource fork. I always liked Stuffit files. The bin files also seem to kill stuffit expander with a -39 error.

#23 Thu, 4 Nov 2010 - 04:39 68kMLA

FAT32 formatted drives ruins resource forks, NTFS doesn't.

The RAR files are not needed, they are just all the files in the directory compressed.

#24 Sat, 6 Nov 2010 - 01:45 68kMLA

I'm trying to download the extracted files but Stuffit keeps choking on the bin files -39 errors.

#25 Sat, 6 Nov 2010 - 03:46 68kMLA

Do you have an OS X machine and a Zip drive?

You might need to use that, or get a newer version of stuffit on the machine. That's your best bet and the only way to do it. Using an old stuffit version is the worst way of doing archives since Stuffit keeps changing their archive code

#26 Sun, 7 Nov 2010 - 23:57 68kMLA

I have a zip drive however I have not had an OSX system for about two weeks (the bridge chip finally went in my G5

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#27 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 - 19:20 68kMLA

Just use MacBinary on the bin file. Download: http://www.mac.org/utilities/macbinary/ or http://www.tucows.com/preview/206992

#28 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 - 05:40 68kMLA

I'm still getting error -39.

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#29 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 - 19:35 68kMLA

I know it's an old thread, but once I get my LC III up (converting an LC II to LC III) I am going to try to re-package these files in .sit. I will have to track down an old form of Stuffit somewhere (possibly eBay) or use a trial version or something if it exists. I will package it as old as I can.

The server I have running does use NTFS, so it shouldn't be a problem, but I will see what I can do.