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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Radius Rocket card | Posted by: crazyben on 2025-07-05 22:17:19
You'll find that performance with a Rocket is subpar with built-in video. 8MB on the Rocket itself is ... meh.
In your defense though, finding a decent video card these days is not easy. One, they're obscenely expensive, and two, most of them are not accelerated. The Rocket however, can accelerate Radius video cards. Three, most of them don't support larger than 640x480 or there abouts unless they're the expensive kinds. Fortunately, the Mac OS works perfectly fine on 640x480, but 800x600 would be nice from time to time... The radius card I have is 24-but graphics I/f. And with this installed same grey screen. | Posted by: MJ313 on 2025-07-06 16:02:33
I remove rockershare preferences and rebooted the iici. Still same thing.
I have an image if you want to give it a shot. | Posted by: crazyben on 2025-07-06 16:04:47
I have an image if you want to give it a shot. That would be great. Thank you. | Posted by: d3jsp on 2026-02-16 01:51:09
did you ever figure out how to fix the grey screen issue? | Posted by: crazyben on 2026-02-16 08:22:52
No. It is still still on my need to get back to bin 🙂 | Posted by: eharmon on 2026-03-02 21:47:44
Mine started hanging on startup again, but while it's trying to mount disks at the desktop instead of at the grey screen.
It was working yesterday, so I'm going to walk through the changes I made to see if I can track the incompatibility. It's possible it's related to your issue, if you still haven't gotten it working. | Posted by: crazyben on 2026-03-03 10:18:25
Let me know how it goes as i mine is still not working. | Posted by: eharmon on 2026-03-10 22:16:47
At least for me, I seem to have gotten a fix down to the following:
- Start Mission Control
- Drag your disk to the left pane of the Mission Control window to mount it on the desktop
- Open the disk that appears on the desktop
- Drag DiskLink out of Control Panels
- Drag your disk back to the Rocket pane in Mission Control
- Launch it
It'll re-install DiskLink automatically and unwedge itself. I suspect it's different than your issue, but maybe worth a shot.
Certain configurations seem to cause it to wedge this way often, or re-wedge immediately so it doesn't fix anything. I'd try removing any other cards and peripherals, disabling every extension except the Rocket ones and their requirements, do the unwedge, and see if it helps.
Crucially, once the Rocket disk is damaged, it'll keep acting funny. So even if you fix whatever configuration is causing it to be unstable, it won't start working.
I'd love to debug what's wrong, but when mine wedges like this it often wedges the host too, and you can't really run MacsBug on both when they're both acting up...
Overall, the network stack and file sharing always seem like the flakey bit. AFAIK it's what killed 7.5+ support as well. | | < 2 |
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