In a message dated 7/26/2004 4:37:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I hope it works for you Craig. > >Last week we had a thread about USB 2 and Firewire on 1400s . It was >said the narrow bandwidth of the cardbus would support neither. Was it the bandwidth, or the fact that Nubus mobos are so different from PCI mobos? Admittedly I am a super-novice when it comes to the more technical stuff, but I thought the point was that since cardbus was made for PCI, and nubus was around long before PCMCIAs or Cardbus, that cardbus could ONLY work on a Nubus mobo if the requisite adapter was made and/or someone made a 16-bit Cardbus card, and no one (allegedly) did? >Will the port for the disk drives support a DVD ? That is the big question. >If you used an external SCSI drive would the 1400 port support DVD >bandwidth and speed requirements? > >What alternatives are left? > >Even a fast processor cannot overcome a severe bottleneck. I believe the concessus (on the website I found) was that the 1400 should be able to support a CD-R, and even a DVD-R, like with my drive. I *think* I remember reading that someone out there was successful with the mod... As long as you have a 12x Cd-rom module, with its connecting board from the drive to the rear of the module, several 3rd party CD-roms, CD-r, DVD-rom and DVD-Rs can AT LEAST FIT inside the module. I know this, because I did a 24x CD-rom mod for my 1400 awhile back using instructions online. But anyway, while putting it in the module should not be a problem, or using it as a CD-rom/CD-R/DVD-Rom has been claimed to have been done, *watching* a DVD movie may be the real problem. 1st of all, I do not even know if the DVD card (from Wallstreets and Lombards) will work in the 1400. It is cardbus or PCMCIA? Secondly, I read about a mod that worked w/ a DVD drive in a 1400, but the picture when showing a movie was s-l-o-w and jerky... BUT the user only had a 183mhz PPC upgraded 1400. I have a 400mhz processor... Craig W. Atlanta, GA Power corrupts. Absolute power's a blast. �- John Fund -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
