They both are using IDE drives and cards. I believe one has a Sonnet Tempo Trio and the other has just a Sonnet IDE 100 card or something in it. One has a ATI 7000 in it, the other has a VillageTronics Video card. I had nothing but problems trying to use the SCSI drive (built in) and the SCSI CD Rom. So, I ditched them and went IDE.
Anyhow, I had a lot of problems when I set these two up using XPostFacto. This was over a year ago. I ended up buying and using the Sonnet software to install OS X. It's been fine since. I'm looking into using XPostFacto to put 10.3 on these systems, but I haven't been brave enough to try it yet.......
Roger Lee wrote:
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.
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