On Jun 3, 2004, at 01:49 pm, Charlie Reyes wrote:
Looks like each harddrive/device is competing for its share of current
which the 300W power supply can't handle simultaneously at startup.
Remember the Sonnett upgrade must draw additional Amperes too. Install just
one drive (set to delay motor start) one after the other, but if it won't
go place third on an external housing with its own power supply.
The 9600 has a 390W PSU, not 300W. I've had mine running with 4 10krpm 9GB Hard disks all spooling up simultaneously in it before now and not suffered any problems. What is more the Sonnet G4 upgrade will not draw greatly more power as the G4 CPU is very power efficient for the speed it runs at, after all this is not an AMD CPU we are talking about ;-).
For the record I have 1 7200rpm IDE drive and 2 10krpm SCSI drives, 768MB RAM, a G4/500 and Zip and CD drives, a Radeon 7000 PCI and PCI SCSI card in my B&W G3 ne G4 and it runs fine - and the PSU is rated at 200W!!
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