At 19:17 -0600 03/21/2002, Stephen Bright wrote: >I'm wondering where my Orange Micro Firewire card would perform best in the >s900? I've also got the Adeptec 2940 and 2 UR video cards to condend with. >So far, I haven't found a solution (w/ 2940 in slot #1) that makes Firewire >very happy. It will do CD burning, but not DV in. Any Ideas? >Stephen
My experince is that the 2940UW is happy in any slot with insignificantly better performance in upper slots. Additionally, that the UR cards will work in the lower slots but if you have the extensions loaded for the card (which are necessary for acceleration) and you try to change resolution or color depth in either the Apple Monitors or the ixMicro CP, the machine will lock up hard with the cursor frozen. This appears to be a driver bug in the ixMicro software. If you disable one of the extensions (forget the name) the problem goes away, but you lose most of the Ult. Rez. performance. I tried this with a couple of versions of the UR drivers. I have only minimal experience with Firewire, but it looks like your choice would be to put the two UR cards in the top slots and the FW and 2940 in the lower slots. A work around, if the Firewire card really needs an upper slot is to put the URs in the lower slots and any time you want to change resolution or color depth: 1) disable the relevant extension in EM. 2) Reboot 3) change resolution and/or color depth 4) reenable the relevant extension in EM 5) Reboot It's a pain, but at least you don't have to open the machine and move the card. All that said, I seem to recall that one of the ROMs on the UR worked as above and one was worse with freezes in the lower slots, but I don't remember which was which. You know, I keep a notebook for this kind of thing these days. You'd think I'd remember to actually write stuff down in it... :-) sigh. Finally, I also seem to remember that others had rather different experiences with the UR, so the above may not be your situation. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Processors, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
