At 15:05 +0100 on 18/07/01, Russell wrote:
>To recap - a secondhand SupraExpress 288 didn�t work on a Quadra 700 OS 7.1
>with Open Transport where a USRobotics 14.4k Mac&Fax did. (And I had changed
>the modem settings, etc.)
>
>I�ve now had the opportunity to try the Supra on an 8100/110 Powermac with OS
>8.0 - it worked perfectly. I guess that this means one of two things:
>
>The Supra, which unlike the USR is powered by the machine, is not getting
>enough current from the 68k machine (does that just display my ignorance of
>modem mechanics?)
Rather than a 68K vs PPC problem, I bet it could be an issue of the Supra
using the Geoport power pin, or the ADB bus (is there a separate ADB cable
that gives it power?) providing too little power.
p
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