Trash80toHP_Mini
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. . . for a 466 DA runnin' 9.x and a Quicksilver 02 runnin 9.2.2?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
TIA
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
TIA
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Inexpensive USB2 & SATA card recommendations . . .
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Bunsen
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There's no USB2.0 support under OS 9. I'm not sure of the situation with SATA cards, but a little searching would probably turn up something. Try xlr8yourmac and the apple support forums
Sata card recommendations?
You're likely to have more luck with Firewire, IMHO - and FW-SATA adapters - or plain-jane PATA.
Sata card recommendations?
You could also try trawling the sonnettech support pages, and see if they ever made a suitable card.
You're likely to have more luck with Firewire, IMHO - and FW-SATA adapters - or plain-jane PATA.
Mike Richardson
Banned
If you're running at least Tiger, my experience is that almost any cheap-o USB 2.0 card for PCs will work just fine in a Mac.
Virtually any FireWire 400 card will work fine.
Virtually any FireWire 400 card will work fine.
Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
You got dat right! :approve:
I'll look into all the different SATA <-> whatever adapters and install one. It took over two hours to back up a 16 GB KeyChain drive to the QS'02 . . .
. . . and something like three freakin' hours using an identical powered USB2 bridge attached to the 466 DA. :
BLEH! [xx(] ]'>
ClassicHasClass
Well-known member
From personal experience, a Sonnet Tempo SATA card will boot just great to OS 9 or any version of OS X.
macgeek417
Well-known member
No OS X? How can you stand it?!
At LEAST upgrade to Panther!
At LEAST upgrade to Panther!
Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
Easily! I've got, literally, over fifteen thousand dollars worth of vertical market CAD/CAM software alone from my sign business. It works fine, I know how to use it and it requires a 9.2.2 world (or less!) and I'm NOT about to upgrade Illustrator, Freehand, the rest of my graphics suite and all the rest of my productivity software when running what I've got under 9.x is plenty good enough! [
] ]'>I'm doin' the ubuntu thing to stretch the noggin' out a little bit and all of that software is FREE!
I can't wait to get the GIMPbox up and running! [
] ]'>
protocol7
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My only experience with a USB2 card upgrade was in a PM G4. The only one that could be picked up off-the-shelf was a generic PC one with a Via chip. Turned out to be useless. It was for a USB2 external drive that was to be used for backups. Trouble was, the drive would only mount maybe one out of every 10 times. It worked fine with the built-in USB ports. Even the Via drivers didn't help. But this was with Tiger too.
quinterro
Well-known member
I have had success with NEC-based USB2 cards. But as others have mentioned they only work at USB2 speeds in MacOS X 10.2.8+.
The only exception I have had to a working NEC-based card was a Belkin 5-port card. Worked well in Windows but it would cause lockups in MacOS X.
The only exception I have had to a working NEC-based card was a Belkin 5-port card. Worked well in Windows but it would cause lockups in MacOS X.
Bunsen
Admin-Witchfinder-General
That's a USB flash drive? I don't think there are any SATA->USB converters, only USB->SATA. More likely to find a FW->USB converter. I think the MiniStack drive has this feature.
You *could* I guess boot into OS X for a file transfer at USB2.0 speeds, then reboot into OS 9 for the rest of your work. Just avert your eyes
Or indeed Linux. Heck, run MacOnLinux with Ubuntu PPC for the best of both worlds.
protocol7: sounds like you got a flaky card.
Bunsen
Admin-Witchfinder-General
I don't have any, sorry bizzle. Best to ask MacJunky
For a zero-cost solution, stick the USB drive into HP_Mini and FTP the files to your Mac over the LAN
Don't go buying that on my say-so. Google so far has turned up exactly nothing that converts a USB device to a Firewire port.
For a zero-cost solution, stick the USB drive into HP_Mini and FTP the files to your Mac over the LAN
mac-man6
Well-known member
By chance I dropped a NEC based generic USB2 card in a graphite G4 running OS 9. Worked fine without drivers, it loaded a USB2 flash stick but I didn't test the speed, although it didn't work in a dual 1.8ghz G5 PCI (not the PCI-X model). This is the model $13 CAD http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=003053&cid=IOC.313.574
Have you tried connecting your QS to you DA with a Firewire and Target Disk Mode?
Have you tried connecting your QS to you DA with a Firewire and Target Disk Mode?
Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
Thanks for the lead! I'll get two! [
] ]'>Two different studios, in two different rooms on two different floors . . . and no Firewire cables . . . so . . . no! [
] ]'>Mike Richardson
Banned
VIA cards are a problem because they use UHCI and not OHCI, or something like that. However I think starting with Tiger, UHCI is supported.
VIA is the only on who makes crap UHCI cards, so just avoid that chip and you'll be OK.
If a card is OHCI/EHCI (the USB 2.0 portion is EHCI) it will work in OS 9 but it won't work at the USB 2 speeds. Everything will work as OHCI and therefore 1.1 speeds.
VIA is the only on who makes crap UHCI cards, so just avoid that chip and you'll be OK.
If a card is OHCI/EHCI (the USB 2.0 portion is EHCI) it will work in OS 9 but it won't work at the USB 2 speeds. Everything will work as OHCI and therefore 1.1 speeds.
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