8500 and USB

[haemogoblin]

I'd like to get USB working on this machine. I have a USB card that works in OSX, but not 9.1. Also I tried installing the USB driver off the OS 9 disc but it says it's not compatible with my system. I extracted the extensions but it didn't work.

 

[Unknown_K]

Make and model of the USB card might help. You can only use USB 1.x speeds in OS 9 even if you get a compatible card. I have a USB card in my 8500 for over a decade now, they are quite handy to have.

 

[Pandamac]

On an 8600 you could install a USB card under OS8.6 

The install CD came with a USB extension installer as Apple realised that not everyone had an iMac and USB cards were coming out.

Some of the cards came with installers of their own, others didn't.

 

[haemogoblin]

Can you still get cards that will work in the older macs and give USB support?

 

[Byrd]

Look for a generic PCI USB 1.1 card on eBay that is "OHCI compliant", they all work out of the box with generic Apple USB drivers.

 

[haemogoblin]

Thanks for that! I might just swap what i have out with one that works out the box It would make using my PCI mac a lot easier

 

[Byrd]

From my experience, any PCI USB 1.1 card will work, but it's a 50:50 success rate for PCI USB 2.0 cards (which run at USB 1.1 speeds under OS 8/9).  If they don't work out of the box with Apple's generic USB drivers, they probably never will.