> >I really appreciate everyone's comments and responses to my RAM >question. I guess I need to clarify a few things. The machine had four >64 MB chips in it when I got it. (This machine had been leased to a >major retail firm for the first four years of its life. I suspect the >four 64 MB chips were Apple installed.) They are from a company named >Paragon. We added two "no name" 32 MB chips from a 8500, and a 32 MB >Techworks & a 16 MB Techworks from our UMAX. With the exception of the >two from the UMAX all are interleaved. I have no way of knowing if they >are FPM or EDO. The machine has always been very stable. > >Some of you folks have real guts! I was planning to leave all of the >external SCSI items disconnected when I tried to install OSX. It looks >like a couple of you booted and installed from external devices. I bow >and remove my hat! Nancy, Welcome to the Unsupported OSX list! It's always nice to have another friendly helpful person on board. Chances are your ram will be fine. If you do have problems with it the first thing to try would be to de-interleave it.The fact that it is now running interleaved means it is working well.If it was weak or otherwise funky that would be the first thing to go. There is a website that helps you figure out what type ram you have based on the numbers and trademarks on the chips . I had good luck doing this. Don't have the website in front of me but can lookup if some one wants it. All three companies currently making G3/4 upgrades are doing a good job IMHO. The funky companies are gone and some good ones. Having said that XLR8 is perhaps the best at running with mixed ram types and Sonnet is middle of the road on that issue . Powerlogix some of their cards can be very picky about ram types but not as picky as the Newertech cards. As far as SCSI items. My J700 Umax has a Zip drive, EZFlyer SyQuest 230mb,and Yamaha CDRW drive hooked to it. I to wondered about them but they all work fine in OSX. In fact I can burn CD's using the updated Toast 5 or the built in disk burner or iTunes! I also have a scanner but haven't tried it not sure if there are drivers or not. I just looked over your other post and I belive chances are good that all your stuff will work fine in OSX once you get the kinks worked out;-) The things currently keeping me from running OSX full time. My Epson printer has no drivers for OSX ( a curse on Epson!). I also have to clear off my ATA drive and don't seem to be able to find the time for such a boring job and it's a 30gb drive. OSX is on my old and small SCSI drve that came with the machine when it was new. It is way slower then the ATA drive but still runs OSX really well. Will S
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