on 12/12/02 3:06 PM, Mark Tribble at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > SNIP SNIP SNIP > I realize that this is a lot of questions, and I appreciate your indulgence. > Thanks in advance for your help.
Hi Mark, I'll try and make some points that may help with your new machine if I can. First, check this link to learn more about your machine... http://www.lowendmac.com/supermacs/c500.shtml The C500 has an internal IDE bus, and only the external bus is SCSI. My advice would be to stick with an IDE drive for your boot drive... cheaper and just as fast or faster as SCSI generally speaking. The external SCSI bus is 5 mb/sec, and not considered speedy. So even if you switched that bus for internal use, it would be half the speed of a typical internal SCSI bus. Your C500 may have been shipped with OS 7.6.1, but it will work happily with any OS from 7.6 to 9.1. The trick is that when trying to install a new OS via an Apple Install CD, the CD driver on that install CD doesn't support the CDROM drive in the UMAX machines, and therefore can't boot from the Apple CD. If you can boot from an external hard drive that has a compatible CD driver on it, and just insert the Apple CD, you can then do an OS install. In other words, it isn't always necessary to boot from the Apple Installer CD providing you have another device to boot from instead. You can get a compatible CD driver (Apple CDROM 5.3.1) from here... http://www.macdrivermuseum.com/disk.html As for a hard disk driver, I always suggest sticking with Apple drivers. Although Apple Drive Setup doesn't recognize all drives, and you may need to use a different utility. If so, I think it's best to avoid older versions of FWB hard disk toolkit. Too many trouble reports with the old versions. Hopefully some others will chime in on what might be unique to a C500 system install... like Cache Doubler for instance. I don't know anything about CacheDoubler software, only that it was used on the C500 originally. I've already mentioned getting Apple CDROM 5.3.1 driver, it's another thing that is unique for driving UMAX CDROM drives. I hope I didn't confuse the issue, I've never had a C500, but did have a PPC 4400 which is essentially the same machine. All the best, -Howie -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
