Hey, Ive got PM8600 (kansas-50mhzbus-800mhzG4) running OS9.1 and OS X 10.2.8 and Audiomedia III with PT5.1.1 LE (os9) and PT6.1.2 LE (osX) I have 3 cheetah drives, 2 drives are dedicated for audio storage only (no Operating System is there)
Ive recently purchased a PCI SCSI card so i can get marginally better read/write times for audio playback/recording... The PM8600 has an builtin SCSI chain running FAST SCSI-2 (max 10mbps) and the PCI card i have is ATTO ExpressPCI PSC (single channel) which is basically the equivalent of the SCSI 64 digi card, but only 1 channel. Its Ultra Wide SCSI-3 (max 40 mbps) However, my question pertains to how to best run this system. 1) Should I leave my OS on the slower PM8600 chain and the only have the faster read/write disks connected to my PCI SCSI card? or 2) Put both the OS hard disk and the audio storage disks on the PCI card together. I always read about the intense CPU time of some plugins and am wondering is this is wise to keep the OS disk on the PCI scsi chain... 3) also anyone know of benchmark programs that can be used for OS9? i want to test the speed increase of this added PCI card. Ive used Xbench 1.0 for OS X, and only marginal increases were gained under this OS (and its not 40mbps, not by a long shot [13mpbs] and my disks are ultra-wide cheetahs!!) maybe its the 50mhz bus which is the bottleneck? thanks! Edgar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
