Hi folks,
Next step in the Franken-Macification of my 9600:
My Sonnet G4/800 upgrade arrived today (thanks to
Mohamad Hammad on the Swap List), and I wanted to see
if there was anything in particular I need to be aware
of before I make the jump.
Currently running:
OS 9.1/OSX 10.3.4
G3/400 Formac card w/Formac L2 Cache control extension
(except when in OSX)
Open GL extensions from 9.2 for the Radeon card
Radeon 7000
544 MB RAM
generic USB card
generic Firewire card
3 SCSI internal HD's
This setup has been virtually trouble-free for the few
weeks I've been running 10.3.4, and for years before
that running 8.5.1
I plan to take out the two 16MB older RAM sticks. The
remaining 4 are new 128 MB sticks from RAM Direct
(ebay). I also bought two more 128 MB sticks (OWC EDO)
with the upgrade card, and have yet another 128 MB
stick from TransIntl. that can go in depending on
whether I want to interleave or not (odd vs. even
number of sticks).
The instructions for the Sonnet card are pretty
complete, but I'm not 100% sure of the order I should
do things in, considering I'm running the Formac card
and it's control panel.
I'm thinking I should:
1) boot into 9.1
2) move the Formac cache control extension
3) run the Sonnet software
4) shut down and pull the formac card
5) reset the CUDA
6) install the Sonnet card
7) close up and re-boot into 9.1
One possible question in the above sequence, would the
Sonnet software install be compromised if the Formac
extension is active when I install the Sonnet
software? Or does it not matter because the Sonnet
software will not be active until after re-boot, at
which point the Formac extension will be disabled?
Also,
Sonnet says I must then re-intall the core 9.1 system
after the G4 card is functioning in order to get the
altivec enablers. Is that so? Is that something that
can be done easier with TomeViewer?
Once everything seems to be running OK, I'll introduce
the new RAM sticks to the mix. Is it best to
de-interleave? I've always run interleaved for maximum
performance. But de-interleaving would allow me to run
896MB of RAM instead of 768MB.
Once that's all stable, how do I make my x-postfacto
setup right? Do I re-run the L2CacheConfig utility?
Enough for now...
Steve
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