>On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 11:01 AM, Gary D. Adams wrote: > >>> Does the S900 have the "OS X must be installed into the first 8 gigs >>> of the >>> drive" limitation? > >No. It does not seem to. > >>> Is there a difference between using the on-board SCSI >>> or using a PCI IDE card, say the VST ULTRA66? > >Yes- the ide setup should be faster. >>> OWC has these for under $50, >>> and they work with OS X. >>> >>> Dan > >I have the VST and it has worked flawlessly for me in 9.1, 9.2 and OS >X. I even removed my old SCSI drive. I've partitioned my Maxtor 15 G >drive for OS X, Classic (9.2), and 9.1. >Given the limitations of our older machines I think the VST card is the >best buy. It does conflict with some PCI configurations, but it has very >good ATAPI support so you can run a cheap cd-rw as well as cheap IDE >drives. > >-Ford >
-- Ford, add my vote, VST great card, fixed or removable media, I have OSX installed on the 2nd partition on 2 S900's, (8GiG) running fine...VST 66 and Sonnet 100. Look with all the discussion about IDE and the UMAX lot, were all trying to run these machines as cheaply as possible and for the most part we're succeeding. My S900's were made for SCSI but I can't afford/willing to dump that kind of cash to do so, if I could... to heck with IDE. So how about that SIIG 133 any body using it. Please share? -- 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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
