At 13:09 -0700 07/17/2002, Will S wrote: > Sonnet is also releasing a new Tempo ATA PCI card which has >an IDE hard drive mounted on the card!
They're apparently also releasing a combo ATA133/Firewire/USB2 card as well. Street price about $180 according to XLR8yourmac.com. That would just make it so that I can fit in all the cards I want. Right now I want 2 X SCSI (for RAID), 2 X video (dual monitors), IDE, Firewire/USB, Wired4DVD. As you can see that adds up to 7. Of course, I could get a Radeon 7000 to get it down to 6 but with all the problem reports I held off. Or I could get a new machine with a dual head video card and just add two SCSI cards... The new card from Sonnet will probably only work properly in the upper two slots of the S900/J700 unless it's the only card in any of the lower slots, but it'll be interesting to read reports. Sonnet did implement a firmware fix that makes their PCI-PCI Bridge cards work in the 6400/6500 machines, so they might have something that works around our problem. It'll be a difficult one to test. My experience with USB/Firewire cards was that they didn't freeze the machine at the gray screen like most PPB bearing cards. Instead, they froze the machine when the Firewire or USB drivers (extensions) loaded. So, I expect that this new card will freeze the S900/J700 if it's in a lower slot, and there's a card with firmware (not an ethernet, USB, or Firewire card) in one of the other lower slots, there's at least one drive on the ATA bus (ATA cards sometimes don't load firmware if no drives are detected), and then it won't freeze until the USB or Firewire drivers are loading. That's my prediction. :-) I feel like I should get a turban or something. 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! | 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
