MAXpower G3 L2 in a TAM

#31 Mon, 26 Oct 2015 - 19:18

Yup tried rebooting a few times. Then i trash the extension.

#32 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 - 20:37

It's been a few days but I actually have a 300 MHz upgrade in my 6400. I've made a video of it working and loading here:

I'm using a version that identifies as 1.3.7 on OS 8.6. Here's a link to that: http://archive.compgeke.com/Drivers/Mac/Maxpowr_G3_L2.zip

#33 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 - 20:41

Pretty quick! Nice.

#34 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 - 20:55

Actually not that fast, it's got a lot of stuff on that HDD, only 130 megs free on the 2 gig drive so I just cut out about 3 minutes of loading time.

I have a feeling that extension dump is bad though, I can't make my sheepshaver OS recognize it as a valid extension so I'm going to just dump directly from the system rather than 10.5 and a USB to IDE adapter.

#35 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 - 23:29

I can't edit the old posts to add a link but I managed to dump the files from the 6400 and confirmed they are valid, unlike previous link. Both a disk copy image and a Stuffit file here, both containing the same stuff. http://archive.compgeke.com/Drivers/Mac/MaxpowrG3_L2/

#36 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 - 01:18

i have not tried 1.3.7, But I did try 1.3.9 awhile back when I was dicking around with it, and it would boot. However it would never see the card. Not even gauge pro.

2.0+ locks up with or without the card.

#37 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 - 00:13

Compgeke said:
I can't edit the old posts to add a link but I managed to dump the files from the 6400 and confirmed they are valid, unlike previous link. Both a disk copy image and a Stuffit file here, both containing the same stuff. http://archive.compgeke.com/Drivers/Mac/MaxpowrG3_L2/

I tried it today, and it made a little more progress. It actually tried to load the driver, but again.. it hardlocked. So no go.

Thats when I noticed the extension is for an L2B. This card is the L2. Which is a re-release, almost like an L2C. but not....

It appears I need that very special driver for this particular card.