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> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > > Alternatively you can hold down command-V whilst booting to get the
>verbose start up
> > > and watch carefully for things mentioning the card.
>
> > Thank you, Bruce. I will investigate these avenues this evening and
> > report back. Perhaps I'll also try a different PCI slot and pull the
> > USB card (far fetched, but unlikely to hurt).
> Also forgot to boot up in verbose mode.
> Should have done that. Sigh.
>
> But I didn't want to put hours and hours into it again. I have
> firmly reminded myself that this exercise is to speed the transfer of
> data off of the machine, not to become an expert at installing 8169
> cards.
>
> So, it occurred to me....
>
> The 8169 works great in OS9. The files are all available and visible
> in OS9. I'll just boot into OS9 and transfer the files off of the
> machine, over my network, and to the Mini, while the Beige is booted
> into OS9. :-) QED.
>
> OS9 might be slower than OSX at network activity (is it?) but the Mini
> only has a 10/100 port anyway. So with the Beige slinging data at
> gigabit, and throttling down to 100 at the switch on its way to the
> mini, I imagine the Beige in OS9 will give me as good of performance
> as the other bottlenecks can take.
>
> Then I can store or dispose of the giant Beige and the tiny little
> Mini will become the household iTunes server. Yea.
>
> Perhaps some day I'll revisit this issue out of curiosity. Darn it.
> The 8169 ought to work, and it bugs me that it doesn't....
>
Sounds like a good plan. I doubt OS 9 is slower than OSX in network transfers
in
a Beige G3.
If you ever decide to revisit the issue be sure to use the cmd-V Verbose mode
at
boot. Aside from all the googlely-gook you see on screen it can provide a lot
of good info on the card in question and I think there is a way to print it out
(from logs) if goes too fast to read. I used this method on my unsupported OSX
Mac's to help solve a few problems in years past. --glen
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