HPV vs AV - Power Mac 8100/110

[volvo242gt]

And, with 8.5 and newer getting rid of the fat binary code, 8.6 felt almost 7.5.x-like, speed-wise.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

8.1 runs great on my cacheless 7100/66, which is a whole lot slower than an 8100/110. It runs way faster in general than my PowerBook 5300, which is odd, since it's a cacheless 117MHz, which by clock speed should be faster, but I guess the 601 is faster per clock than the 603.

 

[Becks79]

Right.
The VGA adapter arrived, so now I have a usable screen resolution.
I thought I'd test out the system a bit now that I can use a proper screen, even though it is with the old SCSI disk.
After booting it up with an Ethernet cable plugged into the Asante card, it got online immediately, however, internet speed is SLOW. I'm downloading from Macintosh Garden with around 2.5kb/s, which is horrid. I'm going to have to figure out why, cause if this is a limitation of the Ethernet connection, I can't use it for file transfer on the LAN either.

 

[Phipli]

internet speed is SLOW. I'm downloading from Macintosh Garden with around 2.5kb/s, which is horrid. I'm going to have to figure out why

Hum, modern internet is an insane load for a 90s computer. Mac Garden isn't the worst, but it's usually better to download on something else then transfer over. That said, I'm surprised the actual downloads are so slow, it's usually the web pages that are the issue.

What browser are you using? I'd suggest Classilla if you're running OS 9 (possibly 8.6), or Netscape if you're running older OSes... But I'm not the most experienced with browser's in classic macs I mostly... Avoid the internet.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

iCab is a good choice when you’re running an OS too old for Classilla.

 

[Becks79]

The system only had IE5.0 installed, and that proved to be the weak link. I spent a good hour or so downloading Classilla, the download sped up to around 35kb/s at one point, and got that set up. Downloading a 3.5MB file in Classilla was over faster than the download speed counter could make up its mind, så clearly it wasn't the Ethernet.

 

[Becks79]

Right. My AppleCD 300i Plus appears to be shot. Also, I found that the drive config was set incorrectly on this system in the first place. Both CD-ROM and HDD was set to SCSI ID0 and they were on the same cable (the secondary, which can only do 5MB/s).
I've now put my Plextor Plexwriter PX-R820Ti on the secondary cable, and activated internal termination.
I've also attached the HDD to the primary (FastSCSI) port, and put a terminator on the end of the cable. This gives me a booting OS9 system with working CD-ROM drive.
I tried swapping out the HDD for my brand new BlueSCSI v2, with two 2GB HDD imaged (correctly named HD00_512, HD10_512 etc.) and since there's a terminator on the end of the cable, I set the jumper to "Term Off". I boot the system with my Power Macintosh 6100/7100/8100 System Software CD in the CD-ROM drive, and... No HDD. Setting the jumper to "Term On" however, makes the Mac see the drive images on the BlueSCSI.
But, surely this would cause double termination, and potential issues? It didn't seem to want to work with "Term On" and no terminator on the cable when I tested earlier, so this seems a bit strange to me.
Any BlueSCSI wizards here who can explain this?

 

[Phipli]

Right. My AppleCD 300i Plus appears to be shot. Also, I found that the drive config was set incorrectly on this system in the first place. Both CD-ROM and HDD was set to SCSI ID0 and they were on the same cable (the secondary, which can only do 5MB/s).
I've now put my Plextor Plexwriter PX-R820Ti on the secondary cable, and activated internal termination.
I've also attached the HDD to the primary (FastSCSI) port, and put a terminator on the end of the cable. This gives me a booting OS9 system with working CD-ROM drive.
I tried swapping out the HDD for my brand new BlueSCSI v2, with two 2GB HDD imaged (correctly named HD00_512, HD10_512 etc.) and since there's a terminator on the end of the cable, I set the jumper to "Term Off". I boot the system with my Power Macintosh 6100/7100/8100 System Software CD in the CD-ROM drive, and... No HDD. Setting the jumper to "Term On" however, makes the Mac see the drive images on the BlueSCSI.
But, surely this would cause double termination, and potential issues? It didn't seem to want to work with "Term On" and no terminator on the cable when I tested earlier, so this seems a bit strange to me.
Any BlueSCSI wizards here who can explain this?

We struggle a bit with BlueSCSIs, generally it is worth going straight to the seller's support as it is a current product, but also they keep changing things.

 

[LaPorta]

You may want to try Macintosh Garden’s FTP site. Connection instructions I believe are at the top of the Garden home page. Use Fetch, and you should be good to go.