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Macintosh Computers and Clones

Apple Macintosh Quadra 840AV, 900, 950, PowerMac 8100/80, 100, 110

Radius 81/110, after bending the rear part of the reset buttom bracket forward to clear the cards.

CPU Upgrades

Some Sonnet CPU upgrades are supposed to be compatable with the NuBus Media 100. Support was added way back in version 1.2.5 of the Sonnet driver software.
Reports have been mixed on these. Some say they had no problems at all, some say it didn't work at all, some said it worked for everything _except_ when capturing video so they just made two Extentions Manager sets with and without the Sonnet G3 extention.

PDS Cards

Apple's A/V card from the PowerMac x100 AV series causes no problems. The video I/O is ignored by the Media 100 software.

NuBus Cards
 
Radius Thunder 24/GT 24bit video card. No conflicts just having the card installed. I've not tried any software that Radius had for the card. Very likely it would conflict with System or Mac OS higher than 7.5.x

SCSI Peripherals

Apparently the NuBus FWB Jackhammer and the NuBus ATTO SEIV wide SCSI cards don't get along with the Media 100 in a PowerMac 8100, but do work with it in a Quadra 840AV or 900/950.

Were there any other NuBus SCSI cards made?

One common SCSI speed cure for the 8100 was to connect a cable to the internal Fast SCSI II (10 megabyte/second) bus then one way or another, with varying degrees of finess, run it outside the case to an external SCSI box that was also connected to the SCSI II (5 megabyte/second) with half the drives connected to each bus. A software RAID driver was then used to stripe a volume across all the drives. This solution was used by the following SCSI systems.

Sledgehammer 17400FMF with two Seagate 9 Elite drives for 17 gigs.

JEMS Data Jemini 17400FM with 2 Micropolis 6850 drives for 17.4 gigs.
This company either bought or licensed a RAID program from Charis Mac. I just obtained a copy of it and it refused to allow a striped RAID volume larger than 4 gig even with the option set for a mazimum of 2 Terabytes. Could be that it just didn't like striping across the two 4gig internal and two 1gig external drives. Further testing is in order.

MicroNet DataDock with two Seagate Barracuda 2 or two Seagate Barracuda 4 drives for 4 or 8 gigs.

A pair of  Micropolis 3243AV drives for 8 gigs.

The preceding info was gleaned from a faded thermal FAX sheet from Data Translation (with coffee damage too) that was stuffed into a coffee damaged Media 100 User's Manual that came with my latest (third) batch of NuBus Media 100 equipment. There's a chart on the FAX of individual drives with R for recommended and NR for Not Recommended on some of them. I'll likely put into a table the data I can make out from it and post it here. Watch this space. ;)