Re: Anyone got 9600 with G4 running OSX?

[Bill's In th' House Connelly]

You might try the www.owcomputing.com site ... and try posting on their  
Xpostfacto Q and A site ... if you're going to use XPF, it will be  
worth the $10 it takes to join ... I might try using XPF should I  
install Panther ... and I may just stick with 10.2.8 ...

I have a Sonnet G3/500 and a G4/450 running in two 8500s ... both have  
Sonnet IDE cards (a Trio and a regular ATA/100 card) ... no problems ...

I used Sonnet's PCI X Installer ... no problems with the on board SCSI  
... everyone I have contacted about problems, say that OS X is very  
fussy about SCSI, and SCSI termination ...

The G4s though had a problem with my M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card  
... something about Firmware conflicts ... I could not use a G4/800 in  
either of my machines ... couldn't figure out why not in the one that  
doesn't have the sound card ... maybe a flaky ADB mouse ...

You might also try searching on the www.xlr8yourmac.com site under  
their card compatibility database ... great info ... maybe something on  
your IDE card ...

Best of Luck ...

Bill

On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 06:28  PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:

Hey, I have 2 9500s that are running OS X 10.2.8.

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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