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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Sonnet L2/G3 Extension drivers - Missing from Sonnet | Posted by: coius on 2012-01-25 01:00:37
After reinstalling my PM 6500 I realized something a little too late. My floppy disk with the sonnet L2 G3 card was corrupt, and not just corrupt, irrecoverably corrupt. And worse yet, I found out that Sonnet pulled their drivers from their site.
After spending half a night search archives on the web, I ended up frantically searching my own media archives in case I made a backup. Luckily for me, I did happen to make such a backup, then immediately put on my server.
The purpose of this post is that this archive (pulled from Sonnettech before they pulled their drivers) can be on the net for people who either received the upgrade without a floppy, or theirs gets corrupt and they don't have the driver. Without further Adieu, i present Sonnet Crescendo L2/G3 Update for PowerMac 5400/5500/6360/6400/6500 and TAM Machines
ftp://coius.info/Download/Mac/Drivers/Crescendo142_143_144_145.hqx
If someone wants to mirror, please do in case my server goes down or offline. This is run on an in-house server, so I try to maintain uptimes, but it's not always possible to maintain 100% uptime with a home connection. Needless to say, I am looking for mirrors (either home or pro server) to keep this on the net.
Please feel free to download and mirror. If mirrored, please post the link.
Mods: if you want to make this a sticky, I will keep this driver on my server permanantly in my public FTP upload folder. I keep a UPS on the cable modem/router and server but I do sometimes have downtimes. Possibly mirror on 68kmla cory? Just a suggestion
EDIT I will also post a few links to some other drives that has fallen off the net. I know I have a few software drivers for peripherals that the drivers seem to be missing off the net.
| Posted by: ojfd on 2012-01-25 04:40:31
Just FIY - in addition to versions that coius has, I have Crescendo 1.2.7 - 1.3.7 - 1.4 - 1.4.1 and Crescendo/Encore 2.0.2 - 2.0.3 - 2.3.1; in case anyone needs them.
| Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2012-01-25 06:43:58
I stuck my copy of the 3.1 enabler (which should cover pretty much most, if not all, of the Sonnet G3 and G4 cards) here:
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/by-request/classic-mac
But I'm rather peeved with Sonnet.
| Posted by: mac2geezer on 2012-01-25 10:02:08
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/ ... lassic-mac Hmm. I pasted that into Firefox and FF says 'the resource can't be located'.
EDit: Does FF not do Gopher?
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-01-25 10:53:40
8-o gopher? That's something I haven't heard for a long time. | Posted by: jruschme on 2012-01-25 11:24:17
FF doesn' natively do gopher. You need Cameron's Overbite extension for FF.
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-01-25 11:37:05
Posting links to hardware drivers seems to be within our guidelines . . . so long as they're not for the idiotic company that charges something like $60 bucks for drivers for their Paleolithic Video Cards.
The Peripherals Links Project is probably the best place to collect these, as it's already stickied and relevant to the project.
I'll talk it over with the other modes.
| Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2012-01-25 19:16:33
What's wrong with Gopher? It's a great fit for old machines, and still a very easy way to set up a simple file server.
Anyway, for Firefox/TenFourFox/SeaMonkey, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/ (as mentioned, I'm the author), or for Chrome, Android, iOS, J2ME, etc., see http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ (yes, HTTP).
| Posted by: jruschme on 2012-01-26 06:54:39
or for Chrome, Android, iOS, J2ME, etc., see http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ (yes, HTTP) Wow! Two surprises in one day... OverBite for Chrome and the fact that the IT people at $WORK actually don't block port 70 outbound.
What's wrong with Gopher? It's a great fit for old machines, and still a very easy way to set up a simple file server. Between things like the recent takedowns of "pirate" sites and legislation like SOPA, I wonder if we won't start seeing a bit of an undernet redevelop around forgotten protocols like gopher.
JR
| Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2012-01-26 11:45:11
Overbite Chrome just hacks the browser to force everything to a proxy, which works, but is inelegant. Chrome extensions, compared to what's possible with Mozilla and XPCOM, are a joke. OverbiteFF embeds an entire protocol handler into the browser, written in JavaScript, no less, that talks to the low-level socket handlers directly. Chrome really needs something like that.
| Posted by: Brooklyn on 2012-12-10 07:20:21
Update to this topic, the drivers are still not on Sonnet's website. I emailed support requesting the 6100 driver, and they sent me this file. See attached below-
Sonnet_Install_CD_2.3.1.zip
| Posted by: TjLaZer on 2018-05-21 21:10:54
Thanks for the drivers, I was able to get my Crescendo L2 300MHz L2 card working on my PowerMac 6400 with MacOS 9.1. The disk that came with it did not work (must be for older OS), but I will post it on here if anyone wants it. 1.4.2
View attachment Crescendo Installer 1.4.2.sea
| Posted by: amigo-mexicano on 2020-08-15 09:29:21
Just FIY - in addition to versions that coius has, I have Crescendo 1.2.7 - 1.3.7 - 1.4 - 1.4.1 and Crescendo/Encore 2.0.2 - 2.0.3 - 2.3.1; in case anyone needs them. Hello ojfd, do you still have these versions? I can't find 1.3.7 anywhere. Could you please share them? Thanks!
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