>Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 04:18:35 -0700 >From: Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >As I mentioned in anothe r post, I have a 80 G Maxtor ATA drive, >Turbo ATA66 card and a Sonnet G3/450/1MB daughter card. I also have, >inter alia, an ixTV video digitizer card. > >I have several 7500's and 8500's (with cards ranging from 120 to 180 >MHz), two Power Tower Pro's (225 & 250) and a UMAX S900. The latter >originally had a 200 MHz card, but that went bad, apparently, and it >now has a 180 MHz card from a J700. > >I'm trying to figure out, first of all, which machine I should put >my ATA card & drive and my Sonnet card into. I'll probably want to >put them into one of the PTP's or the S900, since those have lots of >room for drives. What would be the reasons for using one over the >other. (Am I right in assuming there's no difference between the two >PTP's except for the daughter cards they come with?) If the PTPs came stock as 225 and 250, then it's probably the same motherboard. There were some slight differences between different revisions in the PTP MB. I believe that revision 5 (-05 in the part number on the board) was the last. Deciding between the PTP and the S900 depends on what's important to you. The PTP will probably give you better performance. The S900 has a nice case and arrangement of drive bays. If you're an over-clocker, the S900 may have a slightly higher top bus speed than the PTP. However, I've had the examples of both machines that I have up to 61 MHz so they seem pretty similar. The S900 has a soldered down cache, but it can be disabled by installing a jumper at J38. The PTP's cache is easily removable. The S900 has far more compatibility problems owing to its using a PCI-PCI Bridge chip to control the lower four PCI slots. But that may not be a problem depending on the PCI cards you want to use. Jeff Walther -- 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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
