On Friday, September 2, 2005, at 10:46 AM, John Alonso wrote:
--- Len Gerstel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This may sound wierd but what I remember is some
variation of the following:
1 I Make my move (click on a peice, let go, click on
it's destination) then wait , and wait
2 Get impatient, figure I must have done it wrong
make the same move by the drop and drag method.
wait and wait.
3 go back to 1. or go make a sandwich or watch an
episode of I love Lucy or something
4 sudenly it makes my move and it's move almost
simultaneouly.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually the beiges onboard IDE is 16MB/s. So an
ATA/66 card would quadruple
your throughput. Anyway, someone here has mentioned
it, but there is a
specification of these cards which says whether or
not large drives are supported.
Some ATA/66 cards do support large drives. I think
Sonnets do, but am not
positive.
Chris p
I believe that I may have a bad install of 10.3.x.
It crashes often and has trouble booting up.
I was lusting after 10.3 because I read somewhere
that it could read Windows NTFS formatted disk and
offered huge drive support for disks formatted with
Windows Fat32 in a Firewire enclosure but my ULTRA
USB/FW wnclosure just died so I don't really know if
it can.
Anyway installation was very unrulely.
It dose seem to play Boxicon well.
I may go back to 10.2 since it was incredably stable
and slow and look into an ATA/66 that can support
Huge Drives (greater than 127/137 GiG depends on
weather you count in decimal or binary) as well as a
graphics Card.
Thanks for your help guys
got any Ideas where should look for the graphics and
IDE controlers
Im thinking if I can keep my upgrades inexpensive
I'll do it but I rather save up for a mac mini that
drop a lot of money into outdated equiptment.
Sounds like a bad install of 10.3. Since 10.3 is unsupported on beiges,
I would go back to 10.2. Also I had a situation recently where I needed
to read a NTFS disk and Bruce Johnson mentioned, iirc, that it was 10.4
that could read NTFS disks, that is why he bought it when it first came
out.
It also my be that your Chess program is corrupted. I can email you a
copy of mine from 10.2 if you like.
Beiges can be very finicky with X installs. When I first installed 10.2
on mine, I was getting full system lockups within 15-25 minutes.
Finally did a reinstall and it has been rock solid ever since.
The LEM swap list is a good place to pick up hardware. You should be
able to get a Radeon 7000 in the $40 range and a decent ata card there
too.
As to the ata card, that is up to you based upon how much storage you
need. I ran a speed test with an 80G HD on both an AHard ata 133 card
and the onboard IDE on my beige and the speed was within about 10%.
Granted the ATA card gave me access to larger drives, but right now I
have 2 120G drives for a total of 240G in my home Mac on the onboard
ATA and can not see a reason to get an ata card for a while. But you
may have higher storage needs.
HTH,
Len
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