On Feb 2, 2004, at 4:48 PM, Simon wrote:
Felix,
My understanding is that USB2.0 card won't work in anything less than B&W. I tried a USB 2.0 Card in PM9600 (at that point only running OS9) and had no luck.
I've had one working in a 9600, but very unreliably. Sometimes it would give me the full 2.0 spec speed with my CD burner, but very rarely. The card originally would cause random lockups on the machine, which would get incredibly worse if I enabled Quartz Extreme. Then, it seems that somewhere between the 10.2.3 and 10.2.6 updates, it suddenly gave me full speed, and stopped locking the machine completely, even with QE. It worked great for a while.
But when 10.2.8 came out, it didn't work with my burner at all, causing iTunes and Toast both to stop responding whenever I tried to access the device. It does the same exact thing with Panther. Other devices still seem to work fine with it, just the burner problem. (And I tried the same burner on an iMac running Panther, and it worked fine.)
Mine was an 8 port card, with 4 USB and 2 FW ports on the back, and 1 of each on the internal part of the card for internal connections. It was pure generic garbage that I got from eBay.
My advice, and others would probably agree, would be to steer clear of any combo card, especially that one in particular since it doesn't clearly state that it will work with a Mac.
-Stace
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