Also, I have an Asante Fast Ethernet card to install, with the same "which slot" question. Actually, my question goes deeper. I have recently upgraded a PM 9500 which came equipped with a 10 T Base card built in. This is a Comm Slot II card, which, apparently, is a bit unusual. I started looking around for a 10/100 card, as I was under the impression that the 10 card would only process data at a tenth of the speed of a 10/100. In the meantime, I hooked up the 9500 to a cable modem & router next to my iMac 400 DV, typed in an internet address in both and hit "return" at the same time. Bamm! There was virtually no difference between the two in load time. I was shocked. Do I not understand the difference between a 10 Base & 10/100 Base card? Shouldn't there be a noticeable difference in the load times? If not, I guess I'll be selling a 10/100 card on the swap list, huh?
Will is right on this one (within a factor of 8 ;). If you hook a 100Mbit card to a 10Mbit network device, they will indeed talk at 10Mbit. The 100Mbit card would be good for high speed LAN transfers between similar speed components.
I'm still having issues with my CD-ROM, as in it's not working at all. I'm think I'm going to try to hook it up via my external CD-RW enclosure and see if that'll do the trick. If nothing else, I can buy a brand new one from OWC for $25. That and the extra RAM can keep each other company on the trip down.
If you're running a flavor of OS9, then you might check out:
http://web.tiscali.it/no-redirect-tiscali/thinkdifferent/english/patchs/appledvddriverpatch.html
This is a patch for the stock apple driver to allow it to drive non-Apple drives such as the ones that shipped in our machines. I've had good results in the past with OSs from 8.6-9.1. This driver will let the system access the CDROM as normal, -BUT- it has no effect on making the drive *bootable*. Booting from a CD requires the proper driver on the physical CD (ie burned on the disk), not in the extensions folder. An apple rom'ed drive would let you boot the machine from an apple OS CD (as well as giving you new hardware to play with).
tom
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