On Apr 26, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Job Lawrence wrote:
1) Recognizing a non-apple CD-ROM. I have Toshiba and Matsushita CD drives
on the internal SCSI Bus 0 - will they be recognized and will I be able to
boot from them or will I need an Apple CD drive as some accounts attest? (I
currently use Intech Speedtools.)
2) Will I have any problems with my HDDs which are both UltraWide SCSI running off of a Umax E100 card and not off the internal SCSI?
You're going to get different answers on these questions. I'm running 10.3.3 on my S900 and I upgraded from 10.01 to 10.2 with its updates. Right from the beginning when I had gone to 9.1, I lost my E100, replaced it with an ATTO which then didn't work with 10. What did work oddly enough was the slow SCSI which had a chain of external devices attached ending in a 4 GB drive in a DataDock. The scanner on that chain was/is not supported. While still in 9.1, I replaced the internal OEM CD player with a cheap, $11? Apple CD player, installed an ATA card with a 80 GB drive and replaced one of the TT video cards with a Radion card with 32 megs of memory. The switching of CD players was a very good move. No problems starting up from any System disk. The ATA card and drive is faster than the UltraWide SCSI and partitioned into 4 chunks holds 9.2.2 for classic and 9.1, which is utilized very rarely now, ...and the Radion card change was a great improvement and probably necessary for all this to work. The one other thing that I discovered using 2 monitors is that the radion card's processing speed was degraded while the TT had a monitor attached. There are other people who have gotten their UW cards to work, I guess they will tell you, if they haven't already done so. To me, the whole upgrade was well worth doing.
dan_A
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