rom: "Dan Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>As long as software is available to turn the cache off I see no real need for anyone to do this mod. It would however let you use other cache software.
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:39:24 -0500
From: Will Schoumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've got it installed also. I had to disable the L2/L3 cache support also. My machine does not boot with this turned on. I am also using Cache Control 2.1b4. I soldered a wire across the jumper pads on my S900 motherboard to completely disable on the on-board cache, so no problems there.
PCI Extreme 2.1 works to enable Quartz Extreme on my Radeon 7000 card. My only remaining issue is getting my CD/RW supported for burning. The 10.2 hack no longer works.PCI Extreme refuses to work with my Sapphire 64MB Video card in Panther. Works fine with Jag very odd.
I would say that 10.3 is not worth $130. It should be like $70. There simply isn't that much there, IMO. The Fast User Switching I've had in XP for 2 years, so that's nothing to get excited about. I turned of Expose - too easy to trigger when you don't want it. Besides, I like the Taskbar/Dock better. Instead of stripes, everything is brushed metal now. Meh.
Panther isn't all that different from Jaguar at first use. The changes for the most part are small and take a while to notice. It is however clearly faster then Jaguar. It is somewhat faster even running on an old slow IDE drive . ATTO drive bench marks on this drive are 1/3 of what the bench marks are on the Jag drive plus journaling is turned on. Still seems a bit faster can't wait to get on the faster drive.
I have to agree that $130. is steep for this upgrade. It is a very worth while upgrade in many ways but not as major as 10.1 to 10.2. Brushed metal I could live without. I don't understand why Jobs refuses to give people choices on what things look like. I on the other hand love the Expose/F key short cuts and can't see how I could use them by mistake as you mention. Choice is a good thing ;-)
Also, my external SCSI drive does not work in 10.3, but it works with 10.2.6 just fine.
Dan
It seems like there should be a fix for your SCSI drive. There are a couple of fixes for missing CDRW drive support. Here's a link to last Fridays xlr8yourmacs.com page which has the info.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/panther_cdr_support.html#storytop
later Will S
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