Radius Rocket Experts - is this possible?

Short-n-sweet . . . maybe not so sweet . . .

Radius Rocket Guide/Troubleshooting Thread

. . . since both cards are butt ugly system hacks by their very nature . . .

. . . I'm guessing no chance, but check out the Q&A in the RocketProject, one never knows . . .

. . . until they do.

G-R-E-A-T Avatar! I finally figured out what it was! Which Roman Numeral?

You know, I never tried that with my IIci when I had a PPC card. You can always just install the card and find out.

The only problem is that on my IIci, I couldn't even get it to work with no accelerator and minimum RAM. The power supply just wasn't powerful enough anymore. Required an ATX conversion just to get them going.

Incidentally, that's Roman Numeral IV.

Thanks guys, yep it was star trek 4 er IV

I am going to try to get a hold of a PM7100 power supply (or similar) they are rated to 40 additional watts since these computers also had CDROMs

What system is recommended for rocketshare? Will 7.6.1 work?

Thanks!

Don't bother, olePigeon wouldn't listen when I told him my 7100 PSU wouldn't work for him, but he just had to try . . .

. . . listen up, trooper, oleRocketBird knows stuff!

Don't figure on using anything higher than 7.1 Pro with a Rocket, read the Q&A, then you'll know stuff too.

Yeah. The 7100 technically had 40 more watts, but even that thing was too old to provide enough juice. You're really going to want to convert it to ATX. It's so easy even I could do it. And if you get some wire nuts, it's even a solderless mod. If you decide to use a soldering iron, you could add an ON/OFF switch like I did. Then it makes it like an LC. I couldn't get the soft power to work, though.

You just get an ATX PSU that's roughly the same size, take out the innards, then match up the wires using a simple diagram. I got mine for free out of an old Dell computer heading to the recycling.

I only now just realized that it looks like there could be enough room for 2 HDDs in the IIci HDD bracket. With an ATX mod, you could split the +5v and power 2 HDDs, then RAID them.

I'm going to revisit my IIci soon. I seem to recall when I was first fiddling around with it, I had it running on 7.5.5 with MacTCP. I'll give it another go. I do believe that the Rocket Disk itself has to be 7.1. So leave it as is when it creates your first rocket disk.

You're really going to want to convert it to ATX. It's so easy even I could do it. I couldn't get the soft power to work, though.

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Did you use an inverter on the soft-power-on wire? Of the ATX and old style Mac power supplies, one of them uses 5V as the power-on signal and the other uses GND as the power-on signal. I can't remember which is which, but you need an inverter on that wire to make it work, if you switch from one to the other.

Hey guys, guess what...............it works!!! I am running OS 7.6.1. I am even using the stock IIci power supply. Proof is in the pics-

You Radius nuts is just crazy, man. :

Hey, I resemble that remark! )

Way to go Brooklyn! I wonder if that'd work in my Radius 81/110? }

Speaking of Radius . . . which of their Video Cards do you have in there?

The video card is a Radius PrecisionColor 8-XJ. Only goes up to 256 colors not sure if that's the limit. I installed radius ware.

Ooo, very nice! So why all the pickiness over just System 7.1? I thought I had it running 7.5 when I was first fiddling with it, and it looks like it's running on 7.6. Are we confusing what the host machine runs and what the Rocket runs? Maybe with RocketShare, the host machine can run 7.6, so long as the Rocket is running 7.1.

For the heck of it, I updated the IIci to OS 8.1. Rocket-share still works, see attached.

7.6.1 and 8.1 working with Rocketry??? Excellent news!

I think I'll keep mine 7.1, though. I like the old fashioned Welcome to Macintosh startup.

I do like the startup of the classic 7.1 better too.

I thought I'd keep going just for the sake of trying it out, and rocketshare does run under OS 8.5

And, to round out possible OS's, here is OS 8.6 with the rocket and daystar card.

This is pretty cool because now I can run the legacy software on the rocket and newer software on the machine.

That is very cool.

I have a few questions. Did you install the Radius Rocket while under System 7, then upgrade all the way to 8.6? Or did you install the Rocket after you had already install 7.6 or OS 8?

For os 8.5 I did a fresh install for 8.5, and then reinstalled rocketshare on it. Worked just the same as in system 7 which is surprising.

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I wonder if it would work under Mac OS 9?

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Mac OS 9 doesn't run on a IIci as far as I know or else I'd give it a shot.

MacOS 9 will, however, run on a Nubus PPC.

I was thinking it might be fun to Install the Rocket in my Radius 81/110 to test that very thing, It's too bad the G3 doesn't work. I may have killed it and the HPV adapter by trying them out backwards . . . 7.5/RocketShare test of the IIsi coming up! [}] ]'>

Hmm. Could someone use their dougg3 ROM to change the machine identifier on the IIci into something that OS 9 supports?

I have a dougg3 rom and programmer. If someone could help out on the details ill definitely try it.

Has anyone tried 7.5-7.5.5 with RocketShare? :?:

I assume you get no networking on the Rocket with this setup (i.e. the AppleTalk-over-NuBus hack stops working in post-7.1). So, how do you load software into the Rocket? How do you get data back out of the Rocket?

On the previous page, Booklyn got RocketShare to run under 7.6.1 (I ost my CD) and 8.1 (I haven't gotten a Duo to work with that as yet) in his IIci, so I'm trying 7.5.5 on the Duos for now.

That's awesome that it runs, but I'm still unsure how you exchange data with the rest of the world.

Does the floppy-sharing still work? Do you need the Rocket SCSI-II card and a SyQuest drive?

When I tried Rocketshare on 7.6.1 on my Quadra 800 it did not work at all, taking it to 7.1 made it work.

Perhaps I have an earlier version of the software? I will look into it later.