[PCI] Constant Disk Write Activity

[Bill's In th' House Connelly]

I'm getting constant disk write activity whenever I switch my audio 
controller to an M-Audio 2496 driver in System Preferences under OS X 
10.2.8. It also happens whenever I open an audio-based application such 
as Live or CD Spin Doctor. I use an external SCSI drive for my OS X 
partition and another partition for the applications.

It stops again when I switch back to the Built-in audio controller. 
What could this mean?

M-Audio say they don't support legacy Macs ...

Wonder if anyone out there is using an audio PCI card with a PowerPC 
8500 or similar, and running OS X and may have solved this problem as 
of late? Wonder if my G3/500 upgrade processor is part of the problem?

Things seemed to have work before ... I just cannot remember when 
things went bad ...

Comments?
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PowerPC 8500s: G3/500 & G4/450
OS X 10.2.8, 832 & 512MB RAM
Reason 2.5, Live 3, iMIDI, MIDI Patchbay
M-Audio Audiophile 2496, Yamaha motif ES8
Bill Connelly
Piedmont Central Virginia
Bill Connelly
Piedmont Central Virginia
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