on 6/17/05 12:40 PM, E Hoffman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > This post is a little late (my initial ones were bounced back to me for > some reason), but thanks to Jeff W. and Dan A. for your responses to my > earlier post about the drive I added to my "new" S900 (taken out of my old > S900 that succumbed to the black screen of death) that wasn't being > recognized. Problem solved. It was, as you suspected, a combination of the > added drive still having termination enabled and the same ID# as the 2GB > SCSI already resident on the new computer. I was finally able to make sense of > the little chart on the top of the drive and w/ your explanation and a chart I > found online for Quantum drives, I was able to properly configure the jumper > switches on the underside and reset the ID# and disable termination. > > I'm currently up to OS 9.2.2 and am thinking of moving up to OS X and > installing it on a partition on my 120GB IDE. Does anyone have a > recommendation as to a particular version that might be the most stable > and the least problematic and that will offer the classic environment? I'm > running a G4/450Mhz processor and have 1 GB RAM. Thanks for any suggestions. > > Elliot
I'm still using OSX 10.2.8 on my S900 (G4/400 upgrade card) and quite happy with it. I'm sure others will chime in and note their successes with more current versions. In my experience, the Classic environment is a waste of time ... a number of apps (ie ProTools) wouldn't run on it and it's really slow. If you've already got OS 9.2.2 on a separate drive, it's as easy as selecting that drive/partition as your startup disk and re-starting to go back into true OS9. One thing to watch for: many IDE/ATA cards have an 8GB partition issue (like my Sonnet ATA133)... meaning that if the partition that you install OSX on (or OS9 for that matter) is larger than 8GB, it won't boot. You may need to partition your ATA 120GB drive and create one smaller partition for installing OSX. This limit can be a bit of a PITA, especially if you have many larger apps (ie many of the Apple programs like DVD Studio Pro, FCP, etc.) that want to <only> install on the boot partition, but with a bit of juggling it can be done. And don't forget you need to download XpostFacto to get it all working on our "classic" machines. Good luck! -- Gregg -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
