Re: 68 to 50 pin adaptors - do they work?

At 01:17 AM -0500 02/01/2003, David Stillman wrote: > >I have an extra 68 pin hard drive that is not in use right now, and I was >wanting to use it in my 7300. I know that the adaptor exists to do such a >thing, but I am wanting to hear people's experiences with using these >adaptors. Hoping to h

Re: 68 to 50 pin adaptors - do they work?

In a message dated 1/31/03 10:17:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I have an extra 68 pin hard drive that is not in use right now, and I was wanting to use it in my 7300. I know that the adaptor exists to do such a thing, but I am wanting to hear people's experiences with using these adapto

Re: 68 to 50 pin adaptors - do they work?

I am using 2 at this moment without any problems at all. Nor have I had any problems with 80-68 or 80-50. Lyle Baker Subject: 68 to 50 pin adaptors - do they work? -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbish

68 to 50 pin adaptors - do they work?

Hi all: I have an extra 68 pin hard drive that is not in use right now, and I was wanting to use it in my 7300. I know that the adaptor exists to do such a thing, but I am wanting to hear people's experiences with using these adaptors. Hoping to hear successes and failures, so I know what I am g

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

In a message dated 1/31/03 9:29:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << The Beige G3 series systems are the only Macs with actual ROM SIMMS afaik, since they went to a disk image of the ROM in later Macs. >> Minor point, but the "Tsunami" (9500) has a ROM-SIMM as do the two Apple Network Servers (

Re: Volume

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 06:01 PM, R.A. Cantrell wrote: > I have noticed low audio volume on a few machines lately. Music cd's > and > alerts etc. All the controls are turned up. (on all the control panels > ) > What is the most likely culprit? Old age? :-P > -- "Wherever you go, ther

Re: Firewire - The answer to all life's problems?

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 04:59 PM, Lavode wrote: > > Thanks, Tim. Does anyone have any experience with setting up a DVD-ROM > on their PCI mac? I am wondering if I put a firewire card in, and then > add a firewire DVD drive, will I be able to watch movies, or will I > still need the onboa

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 06:28 PM, k wrote: > Interesting I have a PM 7300 with an ATA66card and a burner and hd as > master and slave, will it work better with a ROM upgrade ? There never was a ROM upgrade for the 7300. The 7/8/9X00 series systems all have slots for ROM upgrades, but Ap

Re: sound gone?

--- Linda Hutcheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are speakers on the side of the monitor. I > thought those were used by the > applications too. > And do they sound dreadful too? What do you have selected for sound out? = Rondo __ Do you

Re: USB nonsense/ Firewire

At 06:36 PM 1/31/2003, Mike typed thusly: >I agree with your comments. Firewire was Apple's replacement for >SCSI. My point is that Apple isn't supporting USB, other than their >original support of USB 1.1, but they aren't giving Mac owners any >real alternatives either if they want new devices fo

Re: sound gone?

rondo waldo wrote: > --- Linda Hutcheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > My Performa 6320 has lost its sound. It sort of > > makes a sound but it is garbled. > > But if I use the TV card I get picture and clear > > sound. All the applications are > > not making clear sounds. It has 64MB of RAM ru

Re: 8500 headless and keyboardless

At 15:11 -0800 1/31/03, Dennis McLaughlin wrote: >Is it possible to run a PowerMac 8500 without a >keyboard/mouse or monitor plugged in? I just received >one but I must purchase a Mac-to-VGA adapter and an >ADB keyboard. When I fire it up, the hard drive starts >up, the cdrom will eject when the b

Re: USB nonsense/ Firewire

>My point is that Apple isn't supporting USB, other than their > original support of USB 1.1, but they aren't giving Mac owners any > real alternatives either if they want new devices for their > computers. Apple seems to have decided that people will be happy to > keep using the lower standard USB

Re: OS X installation boot problems w/Sonnet PCI X Installer & 9500

I used XpostFacto to successfully install Jaguar onto my 9500 from the original CD drive. I used Powerlogix software for X to run the l2 cache on my Sonnet G4/400 card. Both the install and operation are flawless. I've heard of many problems with the Sonnet X installer software. John > > Message

Re: USB nonsense/ Firewire

Mike: > >they threw their >support behind firewire ... Hey folks, we got FIREWIRE!, come >get yours!> > >Firewire has been out for years, so where are the Firewire keyboards, >mice, cameras or other devices? Eric: >Why bother with firewire for keyboards and mice? They don't need the >throughput.

Re: Bus Speed adjustment for PM7500

Joe Melinis wrote: >I have a 7200 with a 7500 mobo and a Sonnet g3-450 >upgrade card installed. The bus speed is 45Mhz >which I assume is controlled by the Sonnet card >trying to run at 10x the bus speed. Is there a way to >get the bus up to it's full potential of 50 MHz by >forcing the CPU to run

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 05:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I tell the Rev of my Beige? The ASP says "PowerMacintosh G3 > (version=2.2)". > > From "Production information" on the first page of ASP output. > > If the ROM revision is $77D.45F1, it is B. > > If the ROM revision is

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:37:34 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 1/31/03 4:26:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << > That's what ASP tells me about my G3 DT. Mine has the Rage Pro chip on it, > I think (& hope) that that means I have 1 of the later revisions. > >> > > You do i

Re: Volume

--- "R.A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have noticed low audio volume on a few machines > lately. Music cd's and > alerts etc. All the controls are turned up. (on all > the control panels ) > What is the most likely culprit? > -- I'd start with the prefs. Trash them. Also check the volu

Re: sound gone?

>My Performa 6320 has lost its sound. It sort of makes a sound but it >is garbled. >But if I use the TV card I get picture and clear sound. All the >applications are >not making clear sounds. It has 64MB of RAM running OS 8.5. Any ideas why it >sounds like a chipmunk in a trap? > >Linda no I rea

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

> > but you are reminding me that an IDE bus can take two devices, if one is >> master and one is slave. >> >> which makes me ask if this machine's IDE controller can handle 2 >> devices on the IDE bus. >> >> what if I forsook the internal scsi bus, and instead put a 2 device IDE >> ribbon

Re: Frozen arrow

>Wilton H. Shaw recently said: > I go to utilities and open disk repair. It indicates my disk has > > need for repair. I repair it and everything is apparently fine. The next >> time I wake up my computer, the same thing happens and I go through the >> process all over again. >>Any though

Volume

I have noticed low audio volume on a few machines lately. Music cd's and alerts etc. All the controls are turned up. (on all the control panels ) What is the most likely culprit? -- All the best, R.A. Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by and...

Re: System 127 Errors

>Roger D. Parish recently said: > >> Well, it sounded like a good idea, however, it did not work. Same >> results. I have given in and reloaded the OS, doing a clean install, >> and moving over all of the additional control panels, extensions, and >> preferences. I've been doing that a lot late

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

In a message dated 1/31/03 4:26:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << That's what ASP tells me about my G3 DT. Mine has the Rage Pro chip on it, I think (& hope) that that means I have 1 of the later revisions. >> You do indeed have one of the later *mobo* revisions (the first mobo revision had

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

> How do I tell the Rev of my Beige? The ASP says "PowerMacintosh G3 > (version=2.2)". > Jerry That's what ASP tells me about my G3 DT. Mine has the Rage Pro chip on it, I think (& hope) that that means I have 1 of the later revisions. -- Over, Jutso -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by

Re: Losing printer in Chooser

> Andrew Grebneff wrote: > > > AppleTalk is active. File Sharing & Program Linking are on, but this > > was not a problem before connecting the 2 computers via ethernet to > > transfer files... > > DING! Check which port Appletalk is active on...betcha you don't see the > printer until Appleta

Re: 8500 headless and keyboardless

>I want to know if it simply won't start without >these. It must at least think that it has a monitor attached or it will not boot. -- Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Dr

Re: Firewire - The answer to all life's problems?

Tim wrote: >Lavode wrote: > > > >>Hey, >> >>With the creation of firewire, I am wondering if getting a DVD drive to >>work on a 7300 with 8.6 is possible >> >Firewire works excellently with my 9600. Just plug my JVC video camera or >my iPod in and I'm off to the races! > > Thanks, Tim. Does

Re: USB nonsense

At 03:28 PM 1/31/2003, Mike typed thusly: >The following are responses to Tom Keller's post: > >they threw their >support behind firewire ... Hey folks, we got FIREWIRE!, come get >yours!> > >Firewire has been out for years, so where are the Firewire keyboards, >mice, cameras or other devices? W

Re: Firewire - The answer to all life's problems?

Lavode wrote: > Hey, > > With the creation of firewire, I am wondering if getting a DVD drive to > work on a 7300 with 8.6 is possible. Seems like PCs have had DVDs dince > the PII days, and Apple really missed the boat. > Lavode Firewire works excellently with my 9600. Just plug my JVC

Bus Speed adjustment for PM7500

I have a 7200 with a 7500 mobo and a Sonnet g3-450 upgrade card installed. The bus speed is 45Mhz which I assume is controlled by the Sonnet card trying to run at 10x the bus speed. Is there a way to get the bus up to it's full potential of 50 MHz by forcing the CPU to run at 9x instead of 10x? Jo

Firewire - The answer to all life's problems?

Hey, With the creation of firewire, I am wondering if getting a DVD drive to work on a 7300 with 8.6 is possible. Seems like PCs have had DVDs dince the PII days, and Apple really missed the boat. -Lavode -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronic

USB nonsense

The following are responses to Tom Keller's post: ... Hey folks, we got FIREWIRE!, come get yours!> Firewire has been out for years, so where are the Firewire keyboards, mice, cameras or other devices? Seems Apple only wants it for major throughput I/O for mass storage/CD/DVD devices. They are

Re: 128mb 5v. EDO RAM pieces in 9500? Can it cause problems?

Before I bought my Sonnet 800 g4 for my 8600 i emailed sonnet about the interleaved RAM issue stated in the manual. (manual is on pdf on their web site) They replied that those statements only apply to their earlier g3 daughter cards which were buggy, they have since solved this problem for the

Re: sound gone?

>My Performa 6320 has lost its sound. It sort of makes a sound but it is >garbled. >But if I use the TV card I get picture and clear sound. All the >applications are >not making clear sounds. It has 64MB of RAM running OS 8.5. Any ideas why it >sounds like a chipmunk in a trap? > >Linda > Monitor

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

Gerald Buc wrote: > How do I tell the Rev of my Beige? The ASP says "PowerMacintosh G3 > (version=2.2)". > Jerry -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do n

8500 headless and keyboardless

Is it possible to run a PowerMac 8500 without a keyboard/mouse or monitor plugged in? I just received one but I must purchase a Mac-to-VGA adapter and an ADB keyboard. When I fire it up, the hard drive starts up, the cdrom will eject when the button is pressed, etc. but there's no 'Apple' chime and

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

In a message dated 1/31/03 3:03:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << How do I tell the Rev of my Beige? The ASP says "PowerMacintosh G3 (version=2.2)". >> >From "Production information" on the first page of ASP output. If the ROM revision is $77D.45F1, it is B. If the ROM revision is $77D.45F2

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 04:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The first Apple machine to implement Master and Slave correctly was > the Rev. > 2/B (and later) Beige G3, which includes all /300s and faster, and all > late > 1998 /233s. > > The Rev. 2/B Beige G3 doesn't implement this c

Re: sound gone?

>My Performa 6320 has lost its sound. It sort of makes a sound but it is >garbled. >But if I use the TV card I get picture and clear sound. All the >applications are >not making clear sounds. It has 64MB of RAM running OS 8.5. Any ideas why it >sounds like a chipmunk in a trap? Corrupt sound file

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

In a message dated 1/31/03 12:50:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Are you sure? If it were me, I'd get a regular IDE cable, and plug in both IDE devices (One as Master and one as Slave) and see if it works. >> It won't. >> Of course I'm assuming Apple implemented standard ATA protocols. >>

Re: 128mb 5v. EDO RAM pieces in 9500? Can it cause problems?

I had a 9500 with 512 meg of interleaved 128meg sticks of ram and my Sonnet G3 450 did not like it AT ALL!! I had to go back in and deinterleave the ram and it ran like a champ (not a trivial task on that beast). My personal advice, until someone puts up some benchmarks to show a significant speed

Re: sound gone?

--- Linda Hutcheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Performa 6320 has lost its sound. It sort of > makes a sound but it is garbled. > But if I use the TV card I get picture and clear > sound. All the applications are > not making clear sounds. It has 64MB of RAM running > OS 8.5. Any ideas why it >

Re: 128mb 5v. EDO RAM pieces in 9500? Can it cause problems?

-- > From: Michael Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > HmmmMy Sonnet g4 800 LOVES the 1.5 gigs of interleaved FPM DIMMs in > my computerbut HATES VPC !!! > > M Doesn't want to do Windoze... ;-) My 9600-350 upgraded with Sonnet G3-500, with 1 GB EDO & FPM RAM runs fine, interleaved, too.

pci-powermacs@mail.maclaunch.com

SCSI !!! M Craig Domanski wrote: > Thanks Michael. What type of extrernal drive? USB, SCSI? > > Craig. > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/31/03 03:06PM >>> > > I got similar results when trying the install using my installed CD-ROM > Drive. > > I put the OSX CD into an external CD-ROM drive and the

sound gone?

My Performa 6320 has lost its sound. It sort of makes a sound but it is garbled. But if I use the TV card I get picture and clear sound. All the applications are not making clear sounds. It has 64MB of RAM running OS 8.5. Any ideas why it sounds like a chipmunk in a trap? Linda -- PCI-PowerMacs

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

Are you sure? If it were me, I'd get a regular IDE cable, and plug in both IDE devices (One as Master and one as Slave) and see if it works. Of course I'm assuming Apple implemented standard ATA protocols. STeve << In order to do that on a beige G3, you need a ROM upgrade. Haven't seen anybody

Wireless solutions

Are any of you out there using a wireless solution for your desktop? (especially if you have a Tempo Trio) What are you using? Do you like it? Downsides? Here's the situation. I finally got a Skyline card to finish up my 8600, and so I could remove the last cable from my computer to the living

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

> but you are reminding me that an IDE bus can take two devices, if one is > master and one is slave. > > which makes me ask if this machine's IDE controller can handle 2 > devices on the IDE bus. > > what if I forsook the internal scsi bus, and instead put a 2 device IDE > ribbon on the IDE bus

pci-powermacs@mail.maclaunch.com

Thanks Michael. What type of extrernal drive? USB, SCSI? Craig. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/31/03 03:06PM >>> I got similar results when trying the install using my installed CD-ROM Drive. I put the OSX CD into an external CD-ROM drive and the install went just fine. The external is a MUCH FA

Re: 128mb 5v. EDO RAM pieces in 9500? Can it cause problems?

HmmmMy Sonnet g4 800 LOVES the 1.5 gigs of interleaved FPM DIMMs in my computerbut HATES VPC !!! M On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 02:46 PM, Tim wrote: > > > Philip Black wrote: > >>just a few days ago, I replaced the G3 with a new Sonnet G4/700 >> card, and quickly found, li

Re: OS X installation boot problems w/Sonnet PCI X Installer & 9500

I got similar results when trying the install using my installed CD-ROM Drive. I put the OSX CD into an external CD-ROM drive and the install went just fine. The external is a MUCH FASTER drive. If you don't have an external CD-ROM drive, borrow one. M On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 02:08 P

Re: 128mb 5v. EDO RAM pieces in 9500? Can it cause problems?

Philip Black wrote: >just a few days ago, I replaced the G3 with a new Sonnet G4/700 > card, and quickly found, like others before me, that Sonnets do not like > interleaved memory. I just recently went to a Sonnet G4/800 on one of my 9600's that has a gig of interleaved 128's in it

Re: USB nonsense

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 01:41 PM, Thomas Keller wrote: > ,I don't believe apple ever made any PCI Mac to support usb 2.0 since > they threw their > support behind firewire It seems they already lost that battle on a local level. I see far more USB 2 external devices now and very few f

Re: Frozen arrow

Wilton H. Shaw recently said: > I have a small but irritating problem on my PowerMac 8500, using OS > 9.1. This started last week. In the morning when I wake up my computer, > the screen lights up with all the icons showing but the arrow is frozen. > In a few seconds the arrow turns into a ball

Re: System 127 Errors

Roger D. Parish recently said: > Well, it sounded like a good idea, however, it did not work. Same > results. I have given in and reloaded the OS, doing a clean install, > and moving over all of the additional control panels, extensions, and > preferences. I've been doing that a lot lately. Hi Ro

pci-powermacs@mail.maclaunch.com

I'm trying to install OS X Jaguar on a 9500 with the Sonnet software. I have the Sonnet PCI X Installer which runs correctly in 9.1, but when it comes time to boot from the Jaguar CD, I get a gray screen with a "circle with a line through it" in the middle of the screen, instead of the "Apple" log

Re: 8500 boards

>Booting from the cd I installed 9.1 on each of the Barracudas - then >booted from the HD to discover that my display is split between multiscan >(2 meg vram) and tv (2 meg vram) and try as I may I cannot get rid of the >mirroring (pram,cuda,whodoo,voodoo,different proc even a G4/400). Left it

USB nonsense

David Klaus wrote: > >> The problem is that Apple only supports USB 2 in OS X. They never >> released a USB driver set supporting USB 2 in classic OS (8.6 or >> 9.x). > > Please point me to any Apple document that says they support USB 2 *at > all*...this is the third or fourth time I've se

Re: Frozen arrow

My Reply follows quote. On 31/01/2003 09:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilton H. Shaw) >Hello, >I have a small but irritating problem on my PowerMac 8500, using OS >9.1. This started last week. In the morning when I wake up my computer, >the screen lights up with a

Frozen arrow

Hello, I have a small but irritating problem on my PowerMac 8500, using OS 9.1. This started last week. In the morning when I wake up my computer, the screen lights up with all the icons showing but the arrow is frozen. In a few seconds the arrow turns into a ball and most of the icons disa

Re: Losing printer in Chooser

Andrew Grebneff wrote: > AppleTalk is active. File Sharing & Program Linking are on, but this > was not a problem before connecting the 2 computers via ethernet to > transfer files... DING! Check which port Appletalk is active on...betcha you don't see the printer until Appletalk is reset to t

Re: buses, SCSI and IDE

In a message dated 1/31/03 6:21:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << [ ... ] since the DVD drive will be the only IDE device connected to the IDE bus, it won't need to be jumpered to master or slave, becuase it's alone on the bus. >> You must plug that drive as Master. Not so plugging the drive i

Re: USB 2 (with the sweetness of Pepsi!)

USB 2 card vendors provide their own drivers for OS X; it's not provided by Apple, per se. Some vendors may only support 10.2, but at least one, Iogear, supports 10.1 with a separate driver. Vendors claim they can offer OS X drivers because the I/O driver model Apple uses makes doing so a trivi

Mike's PCI question

Finally remembered to look at my USB card box. It's a Koutech IO/Flex USB 1.1 controllerstates that it 'Supports Power Macintosh computer with PCI slots and Mac OS 8.6 or higher**' And the ** fine print says 'Mac Computer with PCI V2.1 compliant slots' Now, I stuck it in my beige G3 and all

buses, SCSI and IDE

i decided to reply to you at length on this. your reply to my question actually is not at all like mud. I follow you . I know i am experimenting with things Apple didn;'t forsee us doing on a 6360, but I think i am understanding the requirements I am playing with. the real frustration is how li

Re: USB 2 (with the sweetness of Pepsi!)

On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 07:30 PM, A.Tuazon wrote: > I don't have any docs from Apple regarding support for USB 2.0 and OS > X, but > I do have a Firewire/USB 2.0 PCI card (model: I/O Flex-7002) which > states on > the retail box that USB 2.0 is only supported in OS X or higher. > Co

Re: System 127 Errors

At 10:36 -0700 1/30/03, Bruce Johnson wrote: >Roger D. Parish wrote: > About the time the Finder would be loading. The March of the Icons has completed. >>> >>>Sounds like a driver problem...does this occur with extensions off? >> >> >> Yes, it occurs with extensions off, too. > >This

Re: SCSI and ATA/EIDE HDs coexisting

Mike recently said: > It seems to be working fine Using "Cable Select." My intention was to > avoid having to remove the hard drive again to get to the jumper > since I used creative drive bay mounting techniques since I did not > have a spare plastic mounting sled (and I'm quite proud of the > re

Re: Real Mac Virus Stories

I returned my 7600 to the shop to have RAM installed. This was before I started taking apart computers myself. They apparently attached an external drive and ran Norton's even though I did not ask them to. However, their drive must have been infected because when I fired up the computer back at

Re: USB 2 (with the sweetness of Pepsi!)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I recently read that Apple chokes its USB speed to under 700k/s. That comes >from Roxio's website indicating why you can't burn a CD using a USB drive at >greater than 2x. It's not so much that Apple "chokes" USB speed as the design of USB itself. PCs are a bit fast

Real Mac Virus Stories

Jim Chubbuck writes: >>I would be interested in hearing if anyone on the list >>has ever experience a real virus using a mac... > >Some years ago a friend was given a Mac Classic that had been used in >an office. It wasnt working properly and he asked me to fix it. Doing >my usual troubleshoot

Re: 128mb 5v. EDO RAM pieces in 9500? Can it cause problems?

> > Sonnet and interleaving is the problem. > > I have found some weird things happen with interleaving with most G3 upgrades. > My 9600 and XLR8 card run great, but will not let me use a RAM disc with my > 1.5 G of interleaved RAM, and the Sonnet card in my 7500 will crash and hang > with interl

Losing printer in Chooser

Every time I set the Chooser to AppleShare, I lose the printer. That is, it refuses to acknowledge the printer connection when I try to select LaserWriter 8 (my LaserWriter Pro 630). The Select a Postscript Printer box remains stubbornly blank. Eventually the printer will reappear, but I want t

Re: 8500 boards

>Thanks Bro. Follow the 8500 boards thread of the last few days. Look around >for blank spots on the board as Jeff W. advised me to do. I have an odd 8500 >board, but it seems to be legit. >-- >All the best, >R.A. Cantre ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Where are these blank spots? at the back of the

Re: SCSI and ATA/EIDE drives coexisting

Let's see if I can clear up some of the confusion, or at least stir up the pot a little bit more. ;-) My answers are between your questions. <> I don't see a problem with this. However, you will have to find software that will let you use the DVD drive, like Toast. IDE: If you are adding the D