Alan wrote:
Are there any caveats in running only ATA drives in legacy macs and clones ?
Maybe two years or so ago I put an ATA controller and ATA drive in my 9600. I certainly needed the original SCSI drive when I had a strange failure with a battery backups unit. I had to pull the ATA drive card, the processor upgrade and other "additions" and get back to the machine's original configuration, to get it going again.
If you have room to keep the 4.6 GB SCSI drive it can come in handy in emergency situations. It also makes a nice place to store a set of repair & maintenance programs (Disk Warrior, Norton, etc.) You can boot up from that drive and run your routine maintenance on your other disks.
Is the "Address 0" necessary if I eliminate SCSI drives ?
Jeff is probably the best one to answer that one. But, I suspect that if you eliminate all internal SCSI drives you should probably disconnect the internal SCSI cable from the motherboard. I would assume the machine will "go looking" for a SCSI drive as it boots up. And I think (but am not sure) something needs to terminate the chain if you leave the cable installed. In my system, the original 4GB drive is at the end of the internal SCSI cable, and providing termination to the chain.
George wrote:
I don't have any problems with my Sonnet Tempo in my S900, but I don't capture audio/video on it either.
There is an update on Sonnet's website that addresses the audio issue.
Alan wrote:
There would be only ATA drives for internal storage.
If you are planning to use large size drives, and OS 10.3 definitely look at the updates on the Sonnet site. A guy on the PCI Mac's list just posted something about a problem he had with a Maxtor 120GB drive not being accessible under Panther until he did a firmware update.
Perhaps another reason for keeping an old small SCSI drive. It makes a nice home for OS 9.1 Most of the firmware patches our old machines need have to be applied when booted from OS 9. They can not be done in OS 9 Classic from inside OSX. (You need to have booted into OS 9)
Nancy
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