Now, do you know the difference between the 400 and the 800 drives, will they both run on panther.
This is not an operating system issue, but simply the hardware you are running on, but from other comments you have made I can deduce that your machine would require a Firewire 800 card...
Firewire 800 requires OS X 10.2 or higher to run. There is not the operating system support in OS 9 to handle the new firewire spec. Instead, if you install a Firewire 800 card in a machine running OS 9, you will only get Firewire 400 speeds.
Macintosh computers that have built-in Firewire 800 will *not* boot in OS 9.
On Feb 25, 2004, at 12:47 AM, ben anders wrote:
I have a lacie 160g external hard drive, running on mac os 9.2 ( i know, i know, but all I hear is problems with panther so far)
I have all of my production machines (except for the scanner mac) running with the latest Panther 10.3.2, and have not had any problems whatsoever. The Firewire horror-stories were resolved within a few days of the public being aware of the problem. It was fixed by updating the firmware of the Firewire drive and when you updated to 10.3.1.
What is more significant of an issue is the learning curve of the new OS X instead of production/technical issues. However, I recommend that instead of putting it off, you take the time to learn the new OS. You do not have to use it for production yet, but you will eventually. If you have another Mac, set up one with OS X and one with OS 9 and then do all of your email/web stuff with the new OS to get yourself familiar with the differences.
Photoshop CS and *rare* forced reboots (like once a month for a system) make the new OS more productive than OS 9, even if you are working with stock G4 350-500 mhz Powermacs.
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