--- On Tue, 11/3/09, Elliott Price <[email protected]> wrote: > First of all, the tones it made are probably the "death > chime", which I believe signifies bad RAM, ROM or something along those > lines. > There's been some discussion about "bridge" machines > recently, and I really think that the beige G3's really fit the ticket > for this for quite a few reasons. They have ethernet and serial built > in, as well as a floppy drive and usually a Zip drive; and can run both > 9.2.2 and 10.3.9.
When adding a USB card to an old PCI PowerMac, do NOT get a card with a VIA USB controller chip. There's something not quite right with them, the Mac OS 9.x and OS X drivers don't fully support them. You'll be lucky to get keyboards and mice to work, let alone any other USB devices. AFAIK, any other brand of USB controller chip on a PCI card is 100% OHCI compliant and will work fine in USB 1.1 mode in OS 9 and if it's a 2.0 chip it'll work in 2.0 mode in OS X. For Classic Macs or Classic under OS X, there's USB Overdrive 1.4. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/10028015 (I'm certain that was released as freeware at some point, looks like the author has un-freed it.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
