----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (flawed jai) Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2002 3:40 pm Subject: Re: this is my first...etc
<snip> > ok- on to the realized need for more speed: > the L2 G3 disables the built in geoport modem. I need to put an > externalone on it. what speed? do i need to be thinking seriously > aboutbroadband here? is 56k enough? will it choke ? <snip> It can utilize more bandwith than a 56k modem. Any external modem with a mac-serial connector will work. > speed elsewhere: > this comes with an 8x cd-rom drive built in. should I be thinking of > replacing it with a 24x internal or even faster? can the power supply > drive it? will the G3 go nuts wating for the 8x to do its thing? what > sppeds should i be watching for if i wanted to use an internal CD-RW > unit instead? how bout an external one out the back? CD drives are pretty slow, so it's unlikely you can install one that is too fast. For cd-rw, it should be able to use a 24x-32x drive without problems. <snip> > how does this G3 change the demands on my hard drive? what capacity > should I be thinking about, and spinning at what rpm speed? what > happenswhen the drive is too old, too slow, too small? what are the > parametersthat define these groups from the G3's point of view? > what is it > happiest with? > > for big ambition, i was dreaming about the sonnet tempo trio SCSI > controller in the pci slot. but it might just overwhelm the thing, > sinceit was designed originally to be a 40 bus and 160CPU. am i > dreaming too > big, here? the poor thing can't use any more than 136megs of RAM , no > matter what else i give it. sigh. if i want to be able to use USB or > firewire input, is there something else more modest I could do it with > instead? we don't have any firewire devices yet, but my son has a USB > video camera already. > > what am I looking at, here? how much of this is realistic and how much > of it am I just thinking too big about? > > janet Any ide/ata hard drive should work with the internal bus, though the sonnet cards would speed things up quite a bit and allow you to use a big new drive. I don't have much experience with the 6360, but I'll assume it can use anything you stick in there, just a little slower. That said, other listers should talk about how they (ambitiously) use their 6360's. Peter -- 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
