[SM] J-700

[Scott Birdwell]

Okay, I admit it: I cheated!  I'm not proud of it, but the truth is the 
truth.  After being baffled by the intricansies of SCSI for the past 
two months, I broke down and ordered a SIIG PCI ATA card from OWC.  It 
was only about $75.  It arrived Wednesday afternoon.  Thursday I 
installed it and slapped in an IDE hard drive I had sitting around 
(actually it had been lurking in my external firewire enclosure where I 
loaded OS 9.1 onto it).  Next I powered up the computer and it booted 
right up - no problem!  Once I had an operational computer, fixing the 
SCSI proved less daunting.  First I had to assign the previous (scsi) 
boot drive a different ID #, then I discovered if I made the CD-ROM 
(yes, the original one. . .) the master and the two scsi hard drives 
the slaves, everybody played nicely with each other.  It took a little 
while to get the audio & ethernet up and going, but they're 
operational.  I think I need to break down and purchase Intech CD/DVD 
SpeedTools to make the CD-ROM really happy.  I'm currently scraping by 
with my old FWB CD-ROM Toolkit and it works, but it's not happy  I 
haven't tested the USB/Firewire card yet, but I'm expecting a few bumps 
here.  At this point, though, I feel like I'm on top of the world.  
What I've got now is as follows:

J-700 upgraded to G3-400 (Sonnet)
1040 meg RAM
CD-ROM Matsushita 508 24X (original Umax)
SCSI HD #1 - IBM 4.3 gig 7200 rpm
SCSI HD #2 - Seagate 19 gig 7200 rpm
PCI #1 - SIIG ATA Ultra 133 (this is hooked up to a Maxtor 20 gig 7200 
rpm running OS 9.1)
PCI #2 - Powerlogix Rapidfire USB/firewire card)
PCI #3 - AsanteFast 10/100 network card (I couldn't get the 10 T-Base 
built-in card to respond, but I'm going to try, again).
PCI #4 - Open

This bad boy runs pretty darn fast, if I do say so myself!  I wanted a 
G4 700 upgrade, but used ones on eBay were selling at nearly the same 
price as new ones, which was a bit rich, so I settled for the G3 400 
one for less than $100 (installation book en francais!).  One small 
glitch is that the Sonnet Upgrade extension causes problems at boot-up, 
so I've disabled it (the Sonnet Enabler is still loaded in the System 
folder).  The computer runs fine without it.  The Apple System profiler 
says it's running at 450 - 500 MHz.   What does the extension do, other 
than display the "Sonnet - Simply Fast" logo at boot-up?  To the 
numerous of you that have offered help, "Thank you very much!"

Scott Birdwell

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