I have a PTP with a Sonnet 450/1M G3 CPU card and an ATA card described by ASP as follows:
>Slot B1 >SCSI card >Card type: scsi >Card name: ACARD,6260 >Card model: ACARD,6260 >Card ROM #: Not available >Card revision: 1 >Card vendor ID: 1191 (I think it's a Sonnet card but I'm not sure, and I don't want to go to the trouble of opening up the computer and pulling the card right now.) I have two Maxtor hard drives connected to the acard. One of them -- the one containing my startup volume with OS 9.2.2 -- was formatted with Silverlining Pro 6.4. In the normal startup sequence, the first thing I see is a little box in the lower right corner of the screen that indicates the bus # and ID if the disk that was formatted by Silverlining. Then I see the Happy Mac, etc. But somtimes when I start up, the computer freezes while displaying the Silverlining box. I don't get a Mac icon, happy, sad or inquisitive! After much trial and error, I discovered that all I have to do when this happens is shut the computer off for a few seconds and on again! So the problem is not serious, but I'm worried that it may be something that can become worse. I want to fix the problem before that happens. By the way, I have a new Sonnet ATA-133 card that I was thinking of putting in to replace the 66MHz ACARD. A few of questions: 1) Is it likely to solve my problem? 2) Are drives formatted on one ATA card always readable with another? I know that they're sometimes not readable with Apple's built-in ATA, and vice versa. 3) Given the bus speed of the PTP, would the faster ATA card make much of a difference in tasks like digitizing video? I have an ixTV card for that purpose, but I haven't used it recently. 4) Can I have both ATA cards in the computer at once? I was thinking of doing this and comparing the performance with various combinations of cards and drives connected to them. -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
