My Reply follows quote. On 27/09/2003 09:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >--- I have a Seagate 9G drive in my PM 7500 and wanted >to move it to my PM 8600. Would the drive have to >initialized?
Only if it hasn't been initialized. If you have been using it in your 7500 as the "primary - boot" drive, and want to use it the same way in the 8600, all you need to do is unplug it from the 7500 and plug it into the "main" drive bay of the 8600. If there is a valid system on it that would boot the 7500, it should also boot the 8600. If it has been a "secondary" drive in the 7500, living in the lower bay, then you will most likely need to change the SCSI ID jumper to "0" if you want it to be the primary drive in the 8600. >Here's another question. I see ATA RAID >133 controller cards for sale on Ebay. Is this the >same thing as my Tempo ATA 133 card I have now? RAID refers to a way of "stacking" hard drives so that the data is resident on more that one drive producing a more "graceful" failure so data is "safer" on the drives. It was my understanding that RAID was achieved more through software than hardware specific controller cards. Don't know much about the Sonnet card you mention, but I believe it is primarily a means of adding ATA capability via PCI slotsto anotherwise SCSI system like your 7500 and 8600. It may also add faster ATA bus speeds to older ATA systems. >My PM 8600 has an ethernet card(10/100). The PM 7500 has >somewhat similar looking socket on the back for >ethernet. Will 1 cable hook them both up? The socket on the back of the 7500 is just like the socket on the back of the 8600. Actually there are two on both machines. One is a "standard" RJ-45 ethernet port at 10BaseT. The other is is really the same port, but has the AAUI configuration so it could be used with a bunch of different network interface adapters. If your 8600 also has a PCI ethernet card it would potentially give you higher connect speeds at the 100BaseT rate. Don't know what you mean by "Will 1 cable hook them both up?" If you mean let them "talk" to each other, then sure, though the card is sort of "extra" for this. You could simply use a CROSSOVER ethernet cable to hook the regular RJ-45 ports together, enable filesharing on both machines and go to work. >Once i get them talking to eachother, it will give me 3 more PCI >slots for more stuff to spend my money on (Radeon card, >more USB, a cooling fan etc) thus giving me 6 PCI >slots. Is this a valid statement??....or do I just >have Ethernet fever? David-2 miles from the Mexican >border. Huh? Well, they are still two separate machines. Linking them via ethernet won't "merge" them into one. It will let them share data files and perhaps applications, but... Ken -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
