All's well that ends well, but the install was not without it's difficulties. On the PC side I was unable to get a DOS boot from 2000. I found a Windows 98 machine I could boot into DOS, but had to do shuffling of graphic cards slot locations before I could finally get a combo that allowed monitor use while flashing the new card. I used the m208full flash.
On the Mac side, a little bit of shuffling of cards got me up and running on OS 9 fairly quickly. That confirmed that the m208full flash had completed all the flashing I would need. Perhaps it was coincidence, but my OS X volume became unstable. Later developments make me suspect that the combo of PCI cards and relative slot locations that I had had caused the Miles U2W SCSI card fronting my X drive to go flaky. At any rate, I eventually had to reformat my OS X volume, reinstall and upgrade back to the level I had been at. The arrangement that seems to work for me is:
PCI slot A1 - ATI Radeon 7000 (w attached 17-inch Optiquest monitor) PCI slot B1 - Miles U2W (with 9 gig Baracuda attached; OS X volume) PCI slot C1 (free, bridge) PCI slot D1 - firewire card PCI slots E1,F1 free
This is on an S900 with PowerLogix G3/500, 480 MB RAM running 10.2.6.
-- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
