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[SE30_Neal]

LS-120 was available in a SCSI form, but in reality, it might actually be even easier to use both LS-120 and ZIp250 with USB on a beige PCI Mac than to bother with IDE. I believe there are also SCSI Zip250 drives, probably both internal and external, so that's also an option. Plus, that upper bay is 5.25, so you're talking about room for all manner of things, really.

If the IDE was "bad" (I'm betting it's not) you could even put a SCSI2SD v6 or a regular period SCSI hard disk in that space. Though, CF or a fast-ish SCSI hard disk (there's probably enough room in that bay for a fast disk even though the bus isn't that fast) for video capture is a thing.

The other-other thing is, for a home prosumer video capture setup, the Avid Cinema card uses a PCI slot, and is supposed to have worked with the original stock hard disk. So, just upgrading that disk or, say, moving your boot disk to SCSI and adding a bigger CF card or bigger/faster IDE disk for video capture and scratch might be worth looking into. Then, you have Avid Cinema in one PCI slot, USB in another, and CommSlot2 Ethernet.

How great? The 6500's 2-meg Rage II will do 24-bit at up to 800x600 and 16-bit up to 1152x870, which is pretty normal for ~1997. I don't recall if VRAM is upgradeable as it is on cards like the XClaim VR or on the beige G3 and iMac motherboards.

I’m not sure I’ll have to open it up to look at the card. I have os9 something Is that also limited for 4gb or is it limitless?

 

[Cory5412]

OS 7.6.1 and newer can address 2TB volumes with the right hardware (All PowerPC Macs have the right hardware for this). I haven't tried partitioning bigger disks.

OS 8 (I forget if this was added in 8.0 or 8.1) and newer can use the HFS+ file system, which makes bigger partitions actually efficient for small files.

The big file thing doesn't matter a lot if you have a partition where you're storing mainly, say, disk images or video and audio clips. So, you could put a SATA card and a pair of 2TB disks in a 6500 and use it as an audio player and store your iTunes, SoundJam, or Audion library on the big/fast disk, or use one for capture.

 

[SE30_Neal]

OS 7.6.1 and newer can address 2TB volumes with the right hardware (All PowerPC Macs have the right hardware for this). I haven't tried partitioning bigger disks.

OS 8 (I forget if this was added in 8.0 or 8.1) and newer can use the HFS+ file system, which makes bigger partitions actually efficient for small files.

The big file thing doesn't matter a lot if you have a partition where you're storing mainly, say, disk images or video and audio clips. So, you could put a SATA card and a pair of 2TB disks in a 6500 and use it as an audio player and store your iTunes, SoundJam, or Audion library on the big/fast disk, or use one for capture.

Thanks Cory, to be honest 2TB would be plenty i could back up everything, I could do with adding the extra ram to it and to the iMac as well, IDE drives are cheap enough as is the ram these days so i could up these nicely. I didn’t know if would run iTunes thats cool.

i will defo try out that card it definitely sounds interesting

 

[Cory5412]

8.6 or newer will run iTunes. Depending on what all you have and what all you want to do with it, 7.6.1 through 9.1 are the OS versions that are available/recommendable for that machine. 

 

[SE30_Neal]

The chap mentioned os9 disc was missing from the box so i presume its 9.1 although I have original 8.1, 8.5 and 8.6 upgrade disc anyway as it’s what i brought for upgrading the 6200cd I’m replacing. 8.6 is a nice os fir me and middle ground for a bridge. I have Osx 10.3.9 with 9.x classic mode on the iMac G3 and 7.5.5 on the SE/30. Really didn’t think mp3 were possible back them. Nice definitely going to add iTunes to it.