Matti Haveri wrote:
I'd rather boot into X via SCSI because I can't cold-boot via Sonnet
Tempo ATA100 with the XLR8 upgrade card. Sonnet told me that this is a
limitation of the XLR8 card which only supports warm-boot into X via
Tempo ATA100).
Will wrote: Sorry I can't help you on other issues. I can and will say that I believe the above info regarding the XLR8 upgrade card and the TEMPO ATA 100 card to be false. Yet another in the long list of strange less then true replies from Sonnet Tech people. I'd like to see what other Sonnet 100 card users who have XLR8 upgrades have to say about this. There are some issues with older G4 upgrades and Apple machines with 6 PCi slots. Could this be one of them? How many PCi slots does the 8600 have? I'd thought it was only the 9600 that has 6 slots ?? Will S
Robyn wrote:
The 85/8600 all have three slots, the only machines with 6 were the Umax
S900, the Daystar line, the PowerComputing PowerCenterPro (I think that's
the one) and the 9500/9600 machines. With the exception of the Umax S900,
none of the bottom three slots will work with a G4 card, something with
the second Bandit chip (the PCI controller(?)) causing issues. The S900
doesn't have a second Bandit chip, but it has it's own set of problems.
XLR8 did make a card that was supposed to somehow work a round the
hardware issue and enable the other three slots, I don't know much, but
you'll notice that the XLR8 CarrierZif cards have a moniker after them.
The MPe version is G4 multi-processor ready, but they never made the dual
processor ZIF for it. The SSE version of the card is teh SixSlotEnabled
(Edition?), it is for the 9500/9600 machines, and probably the other
clones.
Robyn,
Maybe I am suffering from "Ignorance is Bliss." I have a 9600 with an XLR8 G4/450 SSE card and zero problems using all six slots. I did have some really strange overheating problems (see Overheating Processor commits Suicide - former posts), but that turned out to be a defective processor. OWC replaced it at no charge.
Although I have not installed OS 10 yet, I have no problems with the G4 and five of my PCI slots filled: OrangeMicro USB/Firewire combo card, Sonnet ATA/100 controller, Radeon Mac Edition, Apple original Twin Turbo card, and OrangeMicro OrangePC card. One slot is empty.
Your comments are as spooky as Will's. You guys are beginning to make me scared shitless about trying to install OS 10.anything.
Nancy
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