Just when I thought all was well, and one of my S-900's ready to go from an office to home, a nightmare trying to get an ADS USB turbo 2.0 board to run one of the inexpensive Iomega 750 zip drives I bought. OWC assured me that it was compatible with the S-900 but it's full of problems. ADS said it was iffy with a processor under a G-3 330--mine is hopped up to just 330, and they said that was on the edge. After some hair pulling I did get it to register in Apple System profiler by juggling it from one of the top two to a bottom slot, and more juggling with the software, actually produced the drive on my machine but when I took the S-900 (perhaps unwisely) by bus and a long walk in Manhattan to my home, it balked. One drive, the SCSI startup, (Seagate 4 gig) started blinking off, in the middle of the start up process. I had to do the option apple, p and r, combination two or three times, before it would blink back, and then go on but only with extensions off. Even wiping out all extensions did not allow it to boot, only that key combination and extensions off. The other drive SCA 80 to 50, happily had a new system on it and mysteriously that booted fine. After hours of trying to make the first drive, the original seagate, boot, I transferred the system folder from the 9 gig Seagate on the SCA 80-50 plug, to the 4 gig, and was able to boot, and slowly transferred settings. Still the USB turbo did not show up, although at one point I got the mysterious message, "You don't have the proper software installed for your Iomega) so I assume that some sort of signal was passing through the USB cord. The drive works fine on my son's G-4. At this point I am ready for a plain vanilla cheap USB 1 board. Any ideas? And any suggestions as to what went wrong with the Turbo? I lost a day's work over this. I can't get the Hebrew Querty keyboard to work on the new system--neither in Nissus or Microsoft Word. This is an arcane question, but if anyone has a suggestion about the latter, let me know.
Mark
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