Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
Hi Craig From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:50:13 EDT Subject: Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz What do we talk about NOW? Who saw a Powerbook Duo on last night's episode o= f=20 Seinfeld?!? FOF/LOL -- This is funny stuff :-D I think you're making the point. See, there _was_ no last night's episode of Seinfeld. The show ended 6 years ago. I'm sure it's still in syndication somewhere on Canadian TV, though. ;-) I gave up on DVD for the 1400, though. Ken N. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
Hi Craig From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:50:13 EDT Subject: Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz What do we talk about NOW? Who saw a Powerbook Duo on last night's episode o= f=20 Seinfeld?!? FOF/LOL -- This is funny stuff :-D I think you're making the point. See, there _was_ no last night's episode of Seinfeld. The show ended 6 years ago. I'm sure it's still in syndication somewhere on Canadian TV, though. ;-) I gave up on DVD for the 1400, though. Ken N. ___ On cable here in NE Ohio it seems to be on a dozen times a day. And speaking as a 1400 owner you'll know I take no pleasure in saying I told you so in my first post on this thread. The PCI list has had a lot of discussion on this for legacy Macs and DVD is very iffy for these very upgradeable machines. -- Adrian -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
Hey, with all this discussion of zoomed video, can someone help me out? I've got an irez capsure zoomed video card off ebay, and a 3400/240. I was hoping to be able to watch ***full-screen*** video (domestic video player) via the zoomed card. but if I make the picture bigger than about 3 inches square, it starts to break up. is this normal? I thought the whole point of zoomed video was that even my lowly 3400 could display full-screen. or do i have a faulty card? Ben -- The VidaVerde Seed Collection 14 Southdown Avenue, Lewes East Sussex, BN7 1EL Excellent Vegetables For the Kitchen Garden: illustrated catalogue at http://www.vidaverde.co.uk -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
In a message dated 7/28/2004 11:04:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS: Paging Craig W! Paging Craig W! Please stop perpetuating the 16bit-USB-cards rumor! Give it up already! Please? Pretty please?!? Pretty pretty please?!? :-) Yeah; I got your page Here's the thing, Dan... I read somewhere that one was made. Maybe it wasn't; maybe I read it off of another e-mail list like this one, where someone ELSE was talking out the side of their neck... but so what? Where else would I discuss something like this, on the Vintage list? I mean, it's on topic, it is pertinent, and it is an answer to a question. If it is a false-rumor, I am sure I am not the only person to give erronius information on this list... They apparently never existed! Well at least no-one here has _ever_ actually seen one in person. Yeah, apparently... Having never actually seen one in person does not really speak to their actual existence, does it? Many people had never seen a tablet-pc-style Powerbook until I found a few (the Freestyle Tablet PC, based on the Powerbook 5300-series). I never personally saw a VST Expansion Bay AC adapter for the 3400/Kanga, or a Powerbook 550c intil I recently acquired both. So since they did not exist before I saw+bought them, I guess I'm like the kid Billy Mumy played on the old Twilight Zone episode? With the vast range of experience on this list, I consider it highly unlikely such a thing existed without being known to _someone_ here. In any case, even if they _did_ exist (which I doubt), they are today unobtainable and therefore maybe you might not want to continually tease folks in such a fashion. I am sure alot of things exist on this earth and beyond that none of us have ever seen. I am personally still looking for a Duo 230-based Penlite tablet PC, a Newer G3 500-series peocessor, and a Vertegri ImediaEngine V7. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your co-operation!!! :-) Okay. Done. I'll let go. It's over. So What do we talk about NOW? Who saw a Powerbook Duo on last night's episode of Seinfeld?!? Craig W. Atlanta, GA Power corrupts. Absolute power's a blast. - John Fund -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz (now Macs on TV)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:50:13 EDT Subject: Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz So What do we talk about NOW? Who saw a Powerbook Duo on last night's episode of Seinfeld?!? Jerry had a Duo mounted in a dock for a couple of seasons. Prior to that he had a compact, I'd bet it was a SE/30 since that was top of the line. Later on he had a 20th Anniversary sitting there. I have only seen one episode where he was actually working on one, and that was an early show with the compact. btw, I saw Independence Day again a couple weeks ago and was reminded about the 5300 saving the world. And Jamie Foxx was using a 17 Powerbook on the ESPY awards show. --- JSH TiBook -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
In a message dated 7/26/2004 11:06:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's no such thing as a 16-bit CardBus card, that is impossible. CardBus is a 32-bit protocol all the way. 16-bit PCMCIA cards are just 16-bit PCMCIA cards, never CardBus, although CardBus controllers are backward-compatible with them. When I stated earlier that someone alledgedly once made a 16-bit cardbus card, I meant a 16-bit USB card, specifically. Since all USB cards are cardbus... well, you see my mistake... I guess it wasn't cardbus; I am obviously not too knowledgeable with the terminology. Anyway, like I said, I have never seen one; and I have been really looking. WallStreet and Lombard DVD cards are CardBus and will not work in a 1400. I'm not even sure they work in a Kanga hacked for CardBus support. Well I guess THAT ends my little experiment! :-D Well, I will still be interested in knowing whether a 1400 can burn on a CD or DVD... Craig W. Atlanta, GA Power corrupts. Absolute power's a blast. - John Fund -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
The USB cards are all Cardbus. No one made a NuBus-to-PCMCIA bridge chip which supported one of the available USB chips. It is the lack of a NuBus bridge chip which prevented the making of a 1400 (or other pre-2400 PB) compatible USB card. The Wallstreet and Lombard DVD decoder card is designed to be used in the lower Cardbus slot, only. That slot can also accommodate a zoom video board, such as the iX3D Road Rocket, but these cards depend upon specific extensions to the Cardbus standard which are implemented on certain PBs (Wallstreet and Lombard, in particular) and may not be present on other Cardbus PBs (2400, 3400, 3500, etcetera). -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
The Wallstreet and Lombard DVD decoder card is designed to be used in the lower Cardbus slot, only. That slot can also accommodate a zoom video board, such as the iX3D Road Rocket, The Road Rocket is a Type III PCMCIA PC Card, not a zoomed video card. Another good example of a zoomed video card is the iRez CapSure. Lovely card, by the way... ;-) but these cards depend upon specific extensions to the Cardbus standard which are implemented on certain PBs (Wallstreet and Lombard, in particular) and may not be present on other Cardbus PBs (2400, 3400, 3500, etcetera). On the contrary, zoomed video cards have no relationship to CardBus (except co-existence, maybe). The PowerBooks that support zoomed video are the 3400, 2400, Kanga, through Pismo. Dunno about G4s. ALL of them can use the Wallstreet/Lombard DVD decoder card (including the 2400c - see http://www.liethen.com/filia-ul-copt/dvd/index.html). However, demuxing the MPEG2 stream will choke anything but a G3. Certain extremely low bandwidth DVDs might work (maybe the kind you might pick up in a back alley?), but don't count on watching anything produced in Hollywood. So, for the record, the DVD decoder card is a _ZOOMED_VIDEO_ card. Zoomed video cards are PCMCIA form factor, but they require zoomed video support. ZOOMED VIDEO IS _NOT_ CARDBUS. PowerBooks which support zoomed video include the 3400c, 2400c, and all G3 PowerBooks (Kanga included). Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
The Road Rocket is a Type III PCMCIA PC Card, not a zoomed video card. Another good example of a zoomed video card is the iRez CapSure. Lovely card, by the way... ;-) Oops! My mistake - the Road Rocket is a Type III CardBus card, not PCMCIA. It does take up two slots, though, so it can't be used on anything newer than a Wallstreet. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/PB_G3/rocket/ Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
In a message dated 7/25/2004 5:58:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Howdy, I have a 1400 I'd like to try a DVD drive with some driver software for OS 8.6. Is there anything available other than a SCSI DVD? TIA, Ken N. _ __ We had a discussion on the PCI Macs list about DVD drives One lister said he did get one to work with a lot of labor and thought. If this is difficult on an upgraded PCI Legacy Mac it must be downright envelope busting on a 1400. I will follow this with great interest. I have a 1400 myself. Hi, I have a 1400 that I was going to attempt to make work with a DVD drive. I decided a few days ago to try to make a 1400c/ G3 400mhz work w/ a DVD-R drive in the expansion bay. I have a 1400 Sonnet G3/400 that a relative was using, but they have moved up to a Wallstreet. Then a few months ago, I bought a 3rd party CD-R/DVD-R slot-loading drive for my Lombard 400mhz. The seller had problems with the order, and to make up for the mishap I was sent two. I put one of the drives in a cd-rom carrier for the Lombard, and it works just fine... So with the extra one, I am going to try to get it working in the 1400. Getting the DVD drive itself to fit inside the Cd-rom carrier from a 12x (the only one U can use, from what I have read!) should not be a problem. However, one source stated that the fastest processor possible should probably be used; a G3 for certain. A G2 probably will not be fast enough to deal with a DVD, so I have been told... Craig W. Atlanta, GA Power corrupts. Absolute power's a blast. - John Fund -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
In a message dated 7/25/2004 5:58:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Howdy, I have a 1400 I'd like to try a DVD drive with some driver software for OS 8.6. Is there anything available other than a SCSI DVD? TIA, Ken N. _ __ We had a discussion on the PCI Macs list about DVD drives One lister said he did get one to work with a lot of labor and thought. If this is difficult on an upgraded PCI Legacy Mac it must be downright envelope busting on a 1400. I will follow this with great interest. I have a 1400 myself. Hi, I have a 1400 that I was going to attempt to make work with a DVD drive. I decided a few days ago to try to make a 1400c/ G3 400mhz work w/ a DVD-R drive in the expansion bay. I have a 1400 Sonnet G3/400 that a relative was using, but they have moved up to a Wallstreet. Then a few months ago, I bought a 3rd party CD-R/DVD-R slot-loading drive for my Lombard 400mhz. The seller had problems with the order, and to make up for the mishap I was sent two. I put one of the drives in a cd-rom carrier for the Lombard, and it works just fine... So with the extra one, I am going to try to get it working in the 1400. Getting the DVD drive itself to fit inside the Cd-rom carrier from a 12x (the only one U can use, from what I have read!) should not be a problem. However, one source stated that the fastest processor possible should probably be used; a G3 for certain. A G2 probably will not be fast enough to deal with a DVD, so I have been told... Craig W. Atlanta, GA Power corrupts. Absolute power's a blast. -- John Fund -- I hope it works for you Craig. Last week we had a thread about USB 2 and Firewire on 1400s . It was said the narrow bandwidth of the cardbus would support neither. Will the port for the disk drives support a DVD ? That is the big question. If you used an external SCSI drive would the 1400 port support DVD bandwidth and speed requirements? What alternatives are left? Even a fast processor cannot overcome a severe bottleneck. -- Adrian -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
In a message dated 7/26/2004 4:37:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope it works for you Craig. Last week we had a thread about USB 2 and Firewire on 1400s . It was said the narrow bandwidth of the cardbus would support neither. Was it the bandwidth, or the fact that Nubus mobos are so different from PCI mobos? Admittedly I am a super-novice when it comes to the more technical stuff, but I thought the point was that since cardbus was made for PCI, and nubus was around long before PCMCIAs or Cardbus, that cardbus could ONLY work on a Nubus mobo if the requisite adapter was made and/or someone made a 16-bit Cardbus card, and no one (allegedly) did? Will the port for the disk drives support a DVD ? That is the big question. If you used an external SCSI drive would the 1400 port support DVD bandwidth and speed requirements? What alternatives are left? Even a fast processor cannot overcome a severe bottleneck. I believe the concessus (on the website I found) was that the 1400 should be able to support a CD-R, and even a DVD-R, like with my drive. I *think* I remember reading that someone out there was successful with the mod... As long as you have a 12x Cd-rom module, with its connecting board from the drive to the rear of the module, several 3rd party CD-roms, CD-r, DVD-rom and DVD-Rs can AT LEAST FIT inside the module. I know this, because I did a 24x CD-rom mod for my 1400 awhile back using instructions online. But anyway, while putting it in the module should not be a problem, or using it as a CD-rom/CD-R/DVD-Rom has been claimed to have been done, *watching* a DVD movie may be the real problem. 1st of all, I do not even know if the DVD card (from Wallstreets and Lombards) will work in the 1400. It is cardbus or PCMCIA? Secondly, I read about a mod that worked w/ a DVD drive in a 1400, but the picture when showing a movie was s-l-o-w and jerky... BUT the user only had a 183mhz PPC upgraded 1400. I have a 400mhz processor... Craig W. Atlanta, GA Power corrupts. Absolute power's a blast. - John Fund -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:12:03 EDT Subject: Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz So with the extra one, I am going to try to get it working in the 1400. Please let us know how you fare with that. Thanks, Ken N. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
Was it the bandwidth, or the fact that Nubus mobos are so different from PCI mobos? Admittedly I am a super-novice when it comes to the more technical stuff, but I thought the point was that since cardbus was made for PCI, and nubus was around long before PCMCIAs or Cardbus, that cardbus could ONLY work on a Nubus mobo if the requisite adapter was made and/or someone made a 16-bit Cardbus card, and no one (allegedly) did? You would need a CardBus controller designed to operate on the NuBus architecture, and no one created such an animal. Doing so wasn't cost-effective because by the time CardBus came into vogue, Apple had already embraced PCI in the 2400 and 3400. The only possible application for a NuBus CardBus controller chip would have been in the 1400. It could have been done, since the NuBus is actually a 32-bit bus (the first 32-bit expansion bus ever used, in fact), but by 1996, the NuBus was on its way out. There's no such thing as a 16-bit CardBus card, that is impossible. CardBus is a 32-bit protocol all the way. 16-bit PCMCIA cards are just 16-bit PCMCIA cards, never CardBus, although CardBus controllers are backward-compatible with them. I believe the concessus (on the website I found) was that the 1400 should be able to support a CD-R, and even a DVD-R, like with my drive. 1st of all, I do not even know if the DVD card (from Wallstreets and Lombards) will work in the 1400. It is cardbus or PCMCIA? WallStreet and Lombard DVD cards are CardBus and will not work in a 1400. I'm not even sure they work in a Kanga hacked for CardBus support. Secondly, I read about a mod that worked w/ a DVD drive in a 1400, but the picture when showing a movie was s-l-o-w and jerky... BUT the user only had a 183mhz PPC upgraded 1400. I have a 400mhz processor... A G3-400 should be able to play the DVD in a 1400 if you can get it working, but I would be willing to bet it won't be perfect. Between the RAM limitation, the 32-bit memory bus and the 33 MHz processor bus, you have a lot of bottlenecks there and all of them will show up in DVD playback. That's why even the 466 MHz G3 for the 1400 can't stay with a much slower Lombard most of the time. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
Howdy, I have a 1400 I'd like to try a DVD drive with some driver software for OS 8.6. Is there anything available other than a SCSI DVD? TIA, Ken N. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: DVD drive for stock PB 1400 133mhz
Howdy, I have a 1400 I'd like to try a DVD drive with some driver software for OS 8.6. Is there anything available other than a SCSI DVD? TIA, Ken N. ___ We had a discussion on the PCI Macs list about DVD drives One lister said he did get one to work with a lot of labor and thought. If this is difficult on an upgraded PCI Legacy Mac it must be downright envelope busting on a 1400. I will follow this with great interest. I have a 1400 myself. But I don't want to hear how it COULD be done. I want to hear from someone who has this setup working on an everyday basis. -- Adrian -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
