On Feb 9, 3:38 pm, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, in my mind there isn't really room for an ATA card in a Beige. > With only three PCI slots, you need one for the Radeon video card, one > for a USB card, and one for a Firewire card. If you boot OS 9, the USB > card MUST be an OHCI USB 1.1 card, which means that for OS X you'll > probably want a combo card with USB 2.0 & Firewire 400 in one card. I > suppose you could squeeze in an ATA card by using a Sonnet Tempo Trio > card, but that's an expensive card and doesn't get you much over > simply booting from Firewire to begin with. The SIIG FW/USB2/Giganet card was available for under $25 for a while. I think they're all gone now. That was a nice card for the Beige. The only thing that would have made it better would have been for the FW to be 800 instead of 400... Jeff Walther -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.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/g3-5-list
