Hi listers, I'm based in UK and recently upgraded my 9600/233 to a Sonnet G4/800 and it's running great! Usually I use MacOS 8.6, but also bought a 9.1/10.1 bundle.
The system has 192MB RAM memory. Non-Apple stuff in the system includes a Formac SA1 SCSI card for 68-pin SCSI drives, and a Formac GA12 ProGraphics card, plus some Quantum SCSI drives that oroginally came from PCs, but I initialized them with a free tool (Lido?). My question relates to getting MacOSX working. I read about XPostFacto which may be used to get OSX 10.1/10.2 running, depending on certain limited hardware capability. I already tried XPostFacto. I had setup one of my SCSI disks in three partitions - one for MacOS 9.1, one for MacOSX, one free. When it boots into OSX (10.1) I get a wierd-looking fractured icon in the middle of the display (17in PC monitor connected via an external adapter). The best way I can describe the icon is that it looks like a folder icon split into six pieces in a grid - two columns of three rows. My first guess at what's causing this is a hardware incompatibility. It took me a little while to work out how to get the system to reboot into something usable, but I figured it out in the end. Is there anyone on this list who has either of the above two Formac PCI cards and is running OSX in a similar setup? I'm considering upgrading to the ATI Radeon 7000 which is apparently supported by XPostFacto for OSX. How likely is it that the Formac SCSI card will be a problem? Thanks for any feedback. -- Roger Lee rrjlee a-t email.com -- 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
