On Jun 1, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote:
AFAIK, any USB 2 card working in OSX, it's working as well in OS9
(just at
USB 1.1 speed, of course).
I've never had a USB 2.0 card that worked correctly even at USB 1.1
speed in OS 9. Perhaps there are USB 2.0 cards that work at USB 1.1
speeds in OS 9? I believe this problem is traceable to a quirk of the
PCI bus implementation on the Beige G3. The Beige PCI bus is v.1.0
specification, and many newer PCI cards require PCI v.1.1. Newer cards
are supposed to be backwards compatible, but not all cards are. This
whole PCI situation on the Beige gets even more complicated because
the onboard graphics are part of the PCI bus. If you're using a Radeon
card, it's a good idea to completely disable the onboard graphics
using Open Firmware commands so that the onboard video isn't
recognized at boot.
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