On Saturday, July 21, 2001, at 11:44 AM, Trishan Arul wrote:
> 1) will it really be just like the files were stored on a Mac or might
> some
> strange file translation happen?
Services for Mac on 2000 Server keeps track of the "extra" Mac
information in the resource fork. Most people see this as the icons
being correct.
> 2) If I buy the CDRW, can I burn the Mac files stored on the PC so a
> Mac can
> read them as if they were burned by a Mac? Better yet would be
> accessing
> the CDRW from the Mac, but I doubt I can do that.
Yes. I think you might run into some funny differences like the icons
being different or the names of files be cut short -- depends on the
format you use to create the CDs (ISO9660 is one format, I forget the
others)
> 3) Our old IT consultants said that Appletalk was very 'chatty' so they
> didn't like us to have too many Macs on the network. Could this be a
> problem? I would probably connect both the iMac and Server to a 100Mbps
> Linksys router.
This is common on large networks. Basically it means that Macs create
more traffic, but no one really notices. I think you'd have to a lot of
Macs with old network equipment to notice. The IT guys use that as an
excuse...
> 4) Not Mac related but is there any way to pass through or chain
> together
> IDE devices like SCSI ones? If not, then I guess I can't get a cheap
> HD and
> a CDRW since they are both IDE devices and would need the same
> connection.
IDE channels can only chain two devices, Master and Slave. You'll find
most IDE cables have three connectors (motherboard, master, slave). I
have seen some PC motherboards add an IDE RAID channel, but I think that
is limited in number of drives too (like 4?).
Normal PCs come with two channels. By default, the hard drive is master
on one, and the CDROM is the master of the other. If you want to put
more devices (ZIP drives count too), then you need to add a PCI ATA/IDE
card. However, you'll probably run out of room in the box before you
run out of channels.
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Kelly D. Jones
http://www.geocities.com/kdjones74 <-- My computer museum
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