On Friday 13 December 2002 08:31, PLM wrote: > On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 05:43 AM, Wolfgang Wolters wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I have question regarding OSX and a Supermac S900 Setup as follows: > > > > S900 with 904e 200MHz > > 512 MB RAM > > Fromac ProFormance II Light with 8 MB WRAM (could be changed to Matrox > > Millenium) > > Adaptec 2940UW flashed to work with MacOS (works fine with 9.1) > > Toshiba CD ROM XM-5701B (came as standard with the S900) > > Plextor 820Ti CD Writer (works with modified Apple CD Driver) > > IBM DGVSO9U 9GB UW Harddisk > > Generic USB Card from PC Vendor with OPTI Chipset (works fine under > > 9.1) > > > > Does anyone know if I could get this setup working with OSX? I tried it > > several times with some modifications except the grafx card and > > Harddisk. I > > connected the harddisk and Toshiba CD ROM to the internal SCSI Port. I > > also > > tried to install with the Adaptec. I removed the USB Card. Nothing > > worked. > > After installing and configuring (starting) XPF the machine reboots. > > After > > reboot the CD Drive is spinning up but nothing will happen. I have to > > Zap > > PRAM to reboot into 9.1. I could think of two reasons for that > > malfunction. > > First the grafx card and second the non Apple CD Drive. Could someone > > please > > give me some advice. > > > > Cheers > > > > Wolfgang Wolters from Mannheim/Germany > > Hello Wolfgang, I suspect its the Formac Pro II, I have one (16MB) > doesn't work > and Formac abandoned OSX driver dev. Phillip Hi I've had much luck with running SuSE Linux on an S900. Maybe this will help you in some way.I'm sure we are all aware that OSX is based mostly on FreeBSD. Hope this helps
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