Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote: >> There is a chance that the USB PCI card will not work, but the one I bought >> did. > This depends on whether the card uses the Apple drivers straight up or > third party drivers that patch the system. If it uses the Apple drivers > then no problem.
I thought it was not a matter of drivers, but rather of architecture. My PCI cards are aftermarket Belkin and Swan. All my USB and FireWire peripherals' instructions say the peripherals are only supposed to work with built-in Apple USB and FireWire ports, not PCI ports. Ports are the issue, not drivers. But my peripherals do work, so I am glad. Are you saying that they work because Apple has included drivers for these PCI cards in OSX? >> * The is something called a MESH bug in the beige G3s that causes SCSI to >> not work with OSX. > Yes and no. The same thing happens on the older unsupported ones. OS-X > reads my Jazz and zip drives just fine off of the SCSI chain, but won't > recognize the scanner. So you have a beige G3, too? I complained to (Ed?) Hamrick of VueScan that VueScanX didn't make my old Epson SCSI scanner work, and he said it was a MESH bug with beige G3s, whatever that means. Since then, I have noticed that if I turn the scanner on, and boot into OSX in verbose mode, there are many lines of Unix complaining about MESH. > Uh, by the way, make sure the SCSI chain IS terminated correctly. OS-X > is really picky about that. There are just two items on the chain, scanner first and external hard drive last, and the hard drive is an APS with active termination. It has worked for 7 years, perfectly, but OSX can't see the SCSI network. Are you saying that on your beige G3 running OSX, you see your SCSI peripherals? Allan Atherton | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
