> I swear I was holding [a $20 FW+USB card] in my hand at comp usa You were not dreaming. I bought two of these $20 CompUSA FireWire+USB cards. If CompUSA won't acknowledge the product number, email me off-list and I'll go find the box for you.
Got one in my Beige G3 right now; Works great under OSX.1 and 9.2.2. If it's not real, guess I'll have to disconnect my FW hard drive and USB keyboard & mouse immediately, before they become vapor too! :-) Was fine with MacOS 8.6 through 9.1 in a 9500, but TOTALLY horked the system when I installed the CompUSA card in a 9500 with OSX.1 already installed--the 9500 refused to boot even after I removed the CompUSA card. Tried everything I could think of, but eventually the savants at MacGurus.com had to tell me to disconnect all SCSI and IDE drives and reset PRAM via CUDA before I reconnected any drives. Not recommended. (Later I saw this 9500+OSX total-crash problem with $12 and $20 generic USB-only cards, so I've stopped installing OSX on my 9500s.) Would not work at all in a 20th Anniversary Mac even if I used Apple's PCI bridge patch downloaded from both Orange Micro or Sonnet. USB and FW drivers installed, so at least the card was recognized by the installer application, but no USB or FW device was ever recognized from any port of the card from my TAM. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Mac OS SW, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> 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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
