On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 15:30 Canada/Eastern, (Unsupported OS X) wrote:
> I boot up expecting it to boot from the OS 9 on the IDE drive. I > still had the OS X 10.2 CD in the drive, and the 8500 booted fine > from it! I installed OS 10.2 on the 20 GB first partition of the WD > IDE drive and it runs fine. I guess since the ACARD pretends to be a > SCSI card one should expect some SCSI voodoo. > > I must say that this drive upgrade moved OS X from pretty usable to > totally usable on my g4/450 8500. Launching apps and Finder > responsiveness is on a par with some of the dual G4 machines I play > with at CompUSA. Obviously the machine still lags in heavy > multitasking (i.e. it is pretty easy to peg the CPU meter), but > overall I am very pleased. Excellent! The SCSI thing through me for a loop too when I tried to install Jag. Cheers... -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
