> OWC is selling an Apple 5x DVD/32x CD drive for the Powermac G3/4 machines. > Does anyone know if these would work in my S900 with a Sonnet Tempo ATA/66 and > 10.2.3? > > Thanks, > Robyn
Hi Robyn, I don't know but I'll find out soon. Just a coincidence but I bought one this morning. The cd/rom should work just fine but I guess to play dvd's it will need the DVD 'wichamacallit' card . They reference the G4's because they are dvd/ready, but our pci macs need that card. 'Decoder' card, that's it! But we figured that the cd/rom should work fine without. And for those who have followed my DVD/RAM saga, I give up. I bought the dvd/32x cd to replace my slow 12x on the internal ide bus. I also went ahead and bought one of the Pyro Firewire Case kits and I'll just put the DVD/RAM drive in that. I will be nice being able to take the drive wherever I need to and be able to copy large files. My order did miss the delivery truck by about two minutes so I probably won't get the drive until Wednesday or so. I'll post here how it installed. What also swayed me is the note in OWC Larry about being able to boot from firewire soon. Dave XLR8 G3 VST Ultratek ATA/66 > New XpostFacto 3.0 coming soon! > ------------------------------- > It's approaching 2 years since OS X was first released. And within mere > hours of the official OS X release, Ryan Rempel was there with the the first > support of OS X for machines Apple's standard OS X did not release. > > OS X has come a long ways in that time, and Ryan's Xpostfacto has made sure > that those unsupported Macs could keep right up with it. > > The current version, OWC Xpostfacto v2.2.4, supports the installation of OS > X up to and including 10.2.3 on a variety of models that Apple does not > support installation on. Xpostfacto does all the work so all you have to do > is click your mouse button 3 times more than you'd have to if Apple did > support OS X installation for your machine. Not too shabby at all, nor is > running with OS X on your unsupported Mac - especially if you have a fast G3 > or G4 upgrade installed! > > Now come forth Xpostfacto 3.0! While you can't get it yet, Ryan demonstrated > it at Macworld and it is on the way. What's new? First off, 3.0 will be > incorporating the OS X Cache control and automatically providing support to > activate the L2 and/or L3 cache for all (or most all) of the various G3 and > G4 upgrades your Mac may have. To get the max performance it is crucial all > your installed cache be online and engaged. The new 3.0 will save you the > step of having to deal with installing and configuring separate cache > enabling software + will configure automatically! The other highlight of > v3.0 is the first time EVER ability to BOOT FIREWIRE from ADD-ON FireWire > cards! Up to this point, only Macs with built in FireWire ports could boot > from FireWire drives. Xpostfacto lets you boot for the first time from > FireWire you've added to your Mac! With this feature, among other things, > you can now take your whole OS X 'life' and boot it from ANY computer that > has FireWire! Boot the SAME OS X FireWire drive off ANY Mac with ANY > FireWire port! To me, that alone makes this a huge thing! > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
