At 10:47 -0500 12/24/2002, Alan Kim wrote: >I would like to hear from anyone who has the following mix in their S900. > >A G4 upgrade card - no brand in particular. >(Stuffed to capacity on RAM) >A Mac Radeon 7000. >USB-only card. (I already have a FireWire card in slot 3) >UW controller (slot 1 in mine) >ATA controller (slot 2 in mine) > >so....this would end up being a 5 PCI card setup. > >I am interested in dabbling in Jaguar but only if I don't have to >struggle with >the peripherals I currently use on a daily basis, mainly a Nikon LS-2000 and >a Epson Photo (700) printer. > >After reading all the posts on various threads over the course of this year, >I am overloaded with fragments that need to be snapped back in order.
I don't know much about Jaguar, but I have the following general comments about slot placement for the cards listed above. The USB only, and firewire only cards should work fine in slots 3 - 6, i.e. the lower slots. I'm not sure about the Radeon. Has anyone tested its slot compatibility? Because it is a dual head video card I am inclined to believe that it will require one of the upper (#1 or #2) slots. And some video functions seem to be significantly enhanced (or not degraded) in the upper slots, so you should probably put the Radeon in an upper slot. That just leaves the UW and the ATA card. As long as the USB and the FW cards are the only other cards in the lower slots, you should be able to put any third card you wish down there and have it work properly, I think. So put one of the remaining cards in one of the upper slots and the other remaining card in one of the lower slots, and you'll probably be fine. If you later try to add a fourth card to the lower slots you may have problems. As far as I know the VST UltraTek/66 is the only ATA card that has problems in the lower slots. If you have one of those it almost must go in one of the upper two slots. Most SCSI cards should work in the lower slots, but some of them seem to have problems. Any of the dual channel cards will be problematic (dual function cards in general are a problem in the lower slots) and I think some folks have had problems with the single channel Miles2 card, but I don't remember exactly. The Adaptec 2940UW is very well behaved in the lower slots, but isn't it unsupported in Jaguar? It would help to know which specific ATA and UW cards you're considering. 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
