168-pin FPM 5-volt DIMMs (for an 8500, etc) have also come way down in price,
though not as far as PC-100 or PC-133. I think it might be around $50 USD for
128 MB. velocityupgrades.com probably has the best price on the 5-volt; OWC
probably has the best deals on the PC-1xx.
It could be memory causing the OS X problems or it could be a marginal drive
or improper jumber settings on one or both of the drives. Again, IDE drives
are so cheap, now, that you should get a new one to replace it. 20 GB HDs are
probably between $75 to $100.
Sometimes it's necessary to adjust the order conflicting extensions in order
to get them to play well together. I used to use a generic CD-ROM driver on my
IIci. If I let it load before the IOmega extension, it would mount my Zip
drive and the IOmega ext would fail to load and the Zip wouldn't work
properly. As a rule, extensions load alphabetically. By changing the name of
the IOmega ext, I got it to load first and then all was well. As for using the
CD burner as a second CD-ROM drive, I'd suggest creating 2 Extension Manager
sets and reboot with the Toast CD ext disabled before burning CDs.
Mitch Hogg wrote:
>
> On 8/4/01 3:40 PM, " James S Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Wow, is it really that cheap? It certainly wasn't for my old 8500. I guess
> I'll just get some new RAM. Thanks for the tip about testing the speed on a
> G4. My only G4-blessed friend is out of town for an extended period,
> however. Do you happen to know of any software that could accomplish the
> same trick on my computer?
>
> > As for the HDs, are they SCSI, IDE or one of each? OS X has been reported to
> > have problems some SCSI cards and some SCSI drives. I wouldn't be surprised to
> > learn it had troubles with mixed setups, either. If the 4 GB Quantum is IDE,
> > that was the stock drive for the B&W G3s; it may just be going bad. I know
> > that the 4 GB drive by mine died and was replaced with a 20GB one by the
> > original owner.
>
> Sorry. I should have been more specific. They're both IDE, and both just
> received a clean bill of health from Norton and TechTool. Maybe the problem
> experienced by the previous owner stemmed completely from the RAM after all.
>
> > I'm not sure what you mean by 'not recognized the Finder'. Are you also trying
> > to use it to read CDs? There is an extension that comes with Toast that
> > enables that, but unless there's something wrong built-in CD-ROM, I'd
> > recommend against enabling it. Allowing 2 extensions to manage one device has
> > just caused troubles for me when trying to burn CDs, which is why I have a
> > CD-R in the first place.
>
> Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do, and I actually got it to work
> shortly after I sent off the email. I understand your concerns about
> allowing two extensions to manage one device, but this setup allows me to do
> things like what I'm doing now: watching a DVD whilst converting the
> contents of an audio CD to aiff. Of course, I would never attempt to burn a
> CD with this setup. Given that I can't seem to use Toast Titanium (and
> therefore do other work on the computer whilst burning), I imagine that I'll
> be burning under a pretty reduced extension set anyway, so I should be safe.
>
> Thanks for all your help, and your very quick response.
>
> Mitch.
>
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