I just bought a LaCie CD-RW drive, Firewire. I'm using a 7600* with a G3 upgrade and a USB/Firewire card in Slot $A1 (the card is listed as "pci-bridge").
Unfortunately, only the USB works right now. Apple System Profiler shows nothing of a Firewire nature, though the USB 0/1.4.1 (vendor-specific USB Serial Adaptor) shows up just fine. I take it in my weird upgrade path using long-discarded update files never properly gave me FireWire extensions.... FireWire Enabler 2.2.2 and FireWire Support 2.0 are older than 9.1, right? Besides, NEITHER extension will "stay marked" in Extensions Manager. I mark them, restart the Mac, and ... they are unmarked when the Mac is up again. So, what should I do? The FireWire extensions for 9.1 don't seem to be available for download. So does this mean I've got to buy the 9.1 Install CD? (Yes, I know: I should have it anyway. My fear has been that as soon as I buy the install CD, I'll upgrade ot OS X or something! But I'll likely just buy it from OWC - unless someone wants to sell me one cheaper.) Any other possible problems connecting a nice new LaCie CD-RW FireWire drive to an old 9.1-running G3 PCI Mac? Would moving the PCI card to another slot give it a better shot of working? Anything else? twv * Uh, it's a hybrid, actually; a 7600/8500 in a 7200 box! -- Signwave Finder Mail 0.5a - http://www.signwave.co.uk/ -- 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
