I've become utterly convinced that there needs to be a convenient web accessible page that talks about what works and doesn't work IRT upgrade components for legacy Macs. It seems we've answered the same basic questions repeatedly about IDE cards, video cards, SCSI cards, network cards, SATA cards (now), yadda, yadda, yadda. Now that I'm an owner of a glorious S900, a PowerComputing PowerCenter 132, and a Sawtooth G4 I've got the mixed bag of legacy SCSI and IDE stuff and I want to know if I can simply buy card X for the UMAX or SCSI card Y for the Sawtooth and find it works. If I'm looking at any upgrade in any category, do I need to have special logic or firmware on a chip or a seperate driver to make it compatible for Mac? That's the eternal question constantly raised and it seems there's enough collective knowledge around our little corner to pull something like this together and get it deployed. Maybe if its good enough we could even get Slashdotted...there's the badge of geekdom...

If you have some experience with a general category of upgrade (IDE cards for instance) for some category of beige Mac or B & W or later, send concise info to me and I'll collate it into hopefully a readable table and post a draft. Please be specific about your individual situation only as you learned about the overall application--I just want to glean the salient point of whether it worked, worked with some help, worked with a lot of help, or didn't work. Since we're talking about PCI based Macs here it seems obvious that we're not concerning ourselves if a ATA/133 card works in a 512k Mac or an LC II. I really don't have an HTML editor besides Microsoft Word but maybe I'll get the full Mozilla pkg and use its editor to try and markup some results by this weekend and put something up on .Mac or maybe my home acc't locally.

When you send something, put in the subject line something that IDs the component in question such as IDE or Video Card or Ethernet. Send your bon mots to:
macuser @ nac dot net (I split it up for anti spambot harvesting purposes). I'm working a normal human job but putting in nearly 11.5 hrs a day plus have the usual wife and 2 kids responsibilities so I'm trying to do this in the 3 or so hrs before I collapse in bed from exhaustion each evening. That's why I'm asking for conciseness in the submissions. Think of this as our little open source upgrade documentation project.


Fire away...
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