Some of these have already been answered, so i will try to avoid the
redundancy:
(Due to Marta's influence, this note will use "i" rather than I)
Hello Bill,
It sounds like a plan.
Hello Allan,
No and Yes (or Yes and No).
I (sorry Marta, but that "i' comes at the beginning of the sentence,
which i believe means it should be capitalized) do not have a beige G3,
but i have done the install on a friend's beige G3 and tested the SCSI
Zip and Jazz drives on that system. The reason i did that was because
in installing X on my unsupported system so long ago, i ran into the
problem of not having my scanner recognized -- which was/is a serious
concern. So i packed up the external stuff, took them over to my
friend's house, and tested them. Same result. The Zip and Jazz worked
fine, but the scanner did not. I have not completely given up on the
scanner being used in X, but i am not holding out hope for it either.
Somewhat recent versions of VueScan did start seeing it as being on the
SCSI chain (the Jaguar upgrade i think helped), but did not do anything
other than give the whirling beach-ball of no action. I have not tried
again with VueScan since updating to 10.2.3 because jumping back into
9.1 to use the scanner doesn't cause me to curse too much.
Jerry
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Bill Holt wrote:
> Jerry and Allen, Thank you!
>
> Now, let's see if I fully understood. If so, my plan will make sense.
>
> The current plan:
>
> 1) Obtain and install another memory stick (bringing the total to
> 512meg)
> and another scsi HD which I'll set as ID number 1 on bus 0. The added
> HD
> can go into the floppy drive bay, which just collects cat hair. As I
> understand it, the computer itself has to occupy ID number 0 on the
> scsi
> chain - at least I think that was the system on earlier machines.
>
> 2) Then, I'll install Jag on the new scsi drive and let it use the
> latest
> version 9.x on the same drive.
>
> 3) Then operationally, using whatever the equivalent to the Startup
> control
> panel is on OSX, I'll be able to designate one of the other drives as
> the
> startup when it's necessary to use an earlier system.
>
> Does that sound like a functional plan?
>
>
> Follow-up questions: (All good answers lead to new questions.)
>
> 1) Is there any advantage to the "other" UNIX disk format?
>
> 2) My internal CD is an ATA mounted on ATA 1 at ID = 0. If I
> replaced that
> device with an ATA hard drive, would the computer recognize it?
> Perhaps, if
> that could work, it would be a better approach than adding another scsi
> drive as the home to OSX. Of course, then I'd have no way to startup
> via
> the CD - as my external CDRW is a scsi and won't serve that purpose -
> but if
> starting up from the CD isn't necessary for installation, I can live
> with
> that.
>
> 3) Allan. Re your upgrade report, yes, I have it, thank you. Did
> you try
> OSX before upgrading the processor to 500? Did tweak the system bus
> to get
> a better matchup or is it still running at 66? If you didn't tweak, I
> wonder how much improvement you're actually seeing due to installation
> of
> the 500.
>
>
> Thanks again guys.
>
> Bill Holt
>
>
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