Basically, ATA 100 and ATA 133 cards should go in one of the first two slots, as should graphics cards... there are exceptions, but even with the differences amongst individual S900s, this seems to be common. It sounds as if you may have a bad ATA card, and you should probably contact Sonnet for a replacement. They're customer service is pretty good.
As for the bridge chip... the thought was to enable cards ont he PCI bus to communicate directly with each other, leaving the rest of the system's resources free to do other things. In some cases, it does improve performance, but, in the long run, has proven to be a pain in the @$$ with new technology, making the machine temperamental toward upgrading. If I were you, I'd replace my broken logic board (with the audio chip, anyhow) with one from a Power Tower. -Antonio On 8/15/05, owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, > > From what I understand, an s900 won't be able to deal with USB 2.0 so > the combo card would be overkill. > > I already have a USB card in the s900. I'm thinking of just picking up > a firewire card. > > I have a Sonnet Temp ATA 100 card, a VooDoo 3300 video card, an ixTV > card and the USB. > > I haven't been very happy with the Sonnet ATA Card. Any HDs I have had > connected to it become flakey. I used to have a 120 gig Western Digital > that was partitioned into 2 volumes and I would always troubles with > it. The Norton Utilities would report it was damaged and I'd run the > Nortons and then run and find nothing, or hang or crash and the only > way I could get the problem to go away for a while was to run Apple's > software. > > Finally, I got disgusted and put the WD 120 in a Firewire case and > connected it to my Audio G4. I never reformatted it and it has usually > been recognized by the G4. I had one instance where the G4 wouldn't > recognize it and I was able to recover with Apple's Disk Doctor. I > wonder if I should reformat the thing. It was originally formated as an > internal drive connected to the ATA 100 card in the s900. > > As far as the s900 goes the Sonnet ATA 100 card has 2 drives connected > to it one to each buss. I have a TDK VeloCD to one buss and a WD40 gig > to the other. At the present time the WD40 gig has disappeared. It does > not appear on the desktop. And only one piece of software can see it, > but none will fix it or even initialize it. > > I haven't used my s900 much since the sound chip crashed. One of the > channels is dead and it won't burn any audio CDs. Whenever I tried > burning an audio CD I would get fatal disk error. > > In the comments you made someone mentioned something about a pci bridge > chip that would require daisy-chaining the pci cards in some way I > didn't understand. I seen comments about Western Digital HDs that > indicating there was some sort of problem with them and the Sonnet ATA > 100 card and I've also seen comments from people with disappearing or > flakey volumes connected to a Sonnet 100 card. > > I'm thinking the best compromise (SP?) would be to get a firewire card > with an internal port and connect the VeloCD burner to it and see if I > can save the WD40 in a firewire enclosure and just get rid of the > Sonnet card. > > Mark Murphy > > -- > SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > iPod Accessories for Less > at 1-800-iPOD.COM > Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal > www.1800ipod.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
