well, i've just installed panther for the 15th time.
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I had a problem with 10.3.9 update. AFter installing
it, i could not get my clock to stick to the right
time. It would always be off by 5 hours or so. I don't
know why. in 10.3.8 it was fine, but after the
upgrade, the clock was off. locking and unlocking
didn't help. reinstalling the 10.3.9 update didn't
help. if you check macfixit.com forums, you'll see
others having issue with this update.
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1. Sonnet ATA-100 just sucks as an IDE controller
card. Two reasons are 1, it has that 8GB limitation
that is well documented and 2, (for me) upgrading the
firmware from the "Tempo ATA100 Firware updater 4.0"
pretty much killed any hopes of installing OSX.
it just doesn't recognize the PCI card after that.
2. Acard AEC-6280M is the card i bought to replace the
Sonnet PCI controller. It works great. Plug and play.
I got it for $52.00 at www.newegg.com.
3. The ATI Oct 2004 firmware just slightly made my
computer seem less choppy.
4. Sonnet Cache 1.3.1. If anything, this was the best
firmware/upgrade. The dock's choppiness is gone and it
feels very fast and responsive. It almost feels as
fast at the dualG4/2GBram computer i have at work.
Amazing. On reboot after installing, i did get an
error message and on the next reboot, everything was
fine.
5. having the stock 2GB scsi drive with a base install
of 9.1 is a godsend. i have installed panther too many
times and each time i get stuck/frozen/stupid, i can
unplug the ATA and default back to my scsi.
6. Poser3D movies. i can't solve it, but the movies
are very choppy on my ATI-7000. those movies i created
in Poser under 9.1 ran smooth and fine, but with OSX,
everything is choppy, with or without firmware
upgrades and the ATI upgrade. I've tested a movie on
each install, and the hesitation and choppiness still
remains. This is under 10.3, 10.3.8.
7. I have an Asus CD-Rom drive pulled from a sony
VAIO. ASP sees it correctly as Asus, however, my s900
won't shut down with a CD still in the drive. it just
reboots. i think it's trying to eject and can't.
8. just upgraded to 10.3.9. everything a-ok. NOT.
9. I could NOT get dual display with Jaguar and
panther 10.3.8. I had NOT at that time upgraded my
ATi-7000 firmware either. But after upgrading to
10.3.9 and having upgraded the firmware, i now have
dual displays. it had to be one of those two things.
I'm using ati7000 (retail version). it comes with two
ports. one VGA and one DVi i think. anyways, my second
monitor is VGA hooked with the DVI-to-VGA adapter.
10. i can't get my IDE Zip drive to be Slave to the
Asus CDROM. oh, Panther boots ok, but does not
recognize the drive. I remember once, on my first
install, it did recognize the drive. perhaps i killed
it. anyways, thank god for USB flash drives.
11. I have both an ADB keyboard and an ergonomic USB
Adesso keyboard attached at the same time. i type on
the Adesso and use the power button on the ADB. both
work fine along with the adb mouse.
12. sadly, i've scoured the forums and web for signs
of a patch to get my ADB wacom tablet to work. but no
go.
13. for the Umax u have to turn off the XPF cache
enabler. i thought ryan was blowin' smoke and too many
times i've gotten stalled trying to leave it on.
Simply turn it off on the install and then use
Sonnetcache.
14. just received the pioneer-106 DVD drive from
otherworld computing. Yeah, it's expensive, but it's
truly plug and play and i can read DVD data discs in
both Panther and Original 9.1 without needing patches.
(the reason why i bought this instead of pioneer-109).
I was able to burn data under 10.3.9 and play DVD
movies in 10.3.8. In fact, i ran the movie on my
second monitor while doing work on the first monitor.
15. If you buy a DVD drive AFTER having installed
Panther, you won't have apple's DVD Player installed.
i was too lazy to check the web for downloads or
patches so i just reinstall Panther, and voila, i now
have apple's DVD Player. it recognizes the Pioneer-106
on the SCSI bus. Heck, all my IDE drives are
recognized as the SCSI drives with the Acard.
thanks to all who went before and solved most of these
problems. hopefully my blunders can help whomever is
left on the migration.
S900
1GB ram
sonnet G3/400mhz
PCI:
Acard 133 IDE controller
Intek21 usb pci card
ATI 7000 PCI video card
QPS 3-port pci firewire card
Drives:
IDE 80 / 120 GB Seagates
IDE Asus cdrom pulled from a sony vaio
IDE Pioneer-106 DVD drive
scsi CD-rom stock
scsi Zip external
scsi zip internal (dead so far)
firewire smartdisk cdr/w
Peripherials
ADB mouse
ADB keyboard
ADB wacom table (dead on osx, great on 9.1)
USB Adesso ergonomic keyboard
- mekavich
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