Using extensions from a previous issue of a system is a surefire way to fail. Almost every card requires an extension from the manufacturer compatible with your current system, to operate at peak efficiency. This Powerwave 150 has a Farallon USB card for the printer (not to mention a Powerlogix G3 400 card and Voodoo5 vid card). After a sub 10 second driver download from the manufacturer it has performed flawlessly with 8.6, 9.0, 9.1 and more slowly but reliably with 9.22, providing I remember to load the factory driver to the new system. I did forget once and sure enough it did not recognize the card.
I will mention that I am not impressed with system 9.22. It starts up a pinch faster (by about 30 seconds - 1.5 minutes as opposed to two minutes) but in the scope of things it is much slower with the demands of Photoshop and even Netscape 7.02. Probably too much extra code to "smooth out" minor wrinkles(?) in 9.1. We are moving back to 9.1 shortly as this experiment with 9.22 is not as impressive as purported. We've succesfully used 9.1 for about two years with seven Macs and clones in our color separation business, with no stability issues whatsoever and excellent performance. Why di we switch? Always willing to try something "better".
Tip for those complaining about slow startups. Hold down your command and option keys and select "memory" from your control panels. You will find an additional box at the bottom will open for startup memory tests. Turn it off! You do not need to check the ram everytime you start the machine. Weekly maintenance programs will tell you all you need to know about your ram and cut your startup time dramatically. We have over a gig in three machines with a minimum half gig in our two weakest machines and the startup time was horrendous starting up with new clean systems which default to having it on.
Hope this helps you Rod, and some of you other folks too.
Phil Henshaw ColorMasters 860 627-5490
Rod Tanchanco wrote:
Just joined this list (wish I knew about it earlier) and I hope you don't mind my throwing in a question.
I have a Power Tower Pro (225 MHz) running OS 8.6. A couple of years ago I added a USB PCI card which works perfectly. Recently I tried to install OS 9.0 but after doing so, the USB card could not be recognized.
I tried installing a newer card but it still wasn't recognized. I then removed the OS 9 extensions that pertained to USBs and replaced them with the USB extensions from the old 8.6 system folder. Didn't work. Did anyone have a similar problem?
Suggestions would be appreciated.
Rod T.
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