I have to say that my experience of fitting a USB card into a 7500 (with a G3 upgrade) belonging to one of my clients was NOT very successful. The 7200 and the 7500 have a very similar architecture except the 7200 did not have an upgradeable CPU daughtercard. Although it did basically work, it was very flaky � whatever combination of extensions I tried, and I pretty much tried them all. This was with the system running 9.2.2, if I recall correctly.
There were two devices plugged into the card � a USB mouse and an Epson SC900 printer. Both would work for a while, but both would also stop working properly eventually. The printer was worst, and each time it stopped communicating a full reboot of the system was necessary before it started working again. I never fully resolved this one, and the client just had to put up with the system being a bit flaky. The only thing I might have tried in retrospect would have been a different USB card � the chipsets do vary enormously in quality, particularly the early ones. This was a fairly pukka card � I think it was a Belkin or Keyspan if my memory serves me right. Nick -- Nick Collingridge - Zapp Computer Consultancy From: Duggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Mac UK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:53:29 +0000 To: "Mac UK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Resolution on 10/2/04 3:40 pm, Andrew Rodger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The two serial plugs for modem and printer are the basis of the usual > peripheral connectivity but you will also have Ethernet 10/100 and > SCSI. there are devices which can extend the range of the serial bus I > believe but it rather depends on what you want to connect and how fast > the data transfer needs to be. if you can connect to your printer with > ethernet or SCSi it will free up the serial port. It should take a PCI > USB card but you will need to check whether the OS can support the card > at the sort of capability the 7200/90 has. I think the machine s really > maxed out at OS8.6 and though OS9.1 will work it is like watching paint > dry My recently disposed of 7200/75 was fitted with a generic USB PCI card which worked reliably even if it imposed a strain on the system: printing photos to the USB printer was an exercise in extreme patience although downloading photos from a camera worked a treat. The 7200 ran Mac OS 8.6 and thus did not come with the extensions required to run the PCI card. Do a search on the Apple support site for "USB adapter" or something similar to download the necessary extensions (this was also posted a few weeks back on this list). I guess 9.1 comes with this support embedded but it would seem the OS would just overload the system which struggled with recent software at the best of times. Martin -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
