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| Click here to select a new forum. | | the 7600 is kicking $$%^% | Posted by: Osgeld on 2010-01-14 17:17:44
yea I would go IDE also if I were in his shoes :beige:
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2010-01-14 18:02:38
Hmm.
I was about to suggest picking up this card, when I read the following in the description:
Internal Drives Supported Supports any ATA/IDE fixed media hard drive including ATA/33,ATA/66, ATA/66Removable media/ATAPI devices supported under OS X So it looks like you would not be able to use that for a DVD-R drive under OS 9. That is something to watch out for - make sure the card supports ATAPI (removable media) drives. Same goes for adapters from Firewire or SCSI.
SCSI DVD writers are very hard to find, so I wouldn't bother going with a SCSI card myself.
I think the best bet for OS 9 would be a Firewire card and a Firewire-ATAPI adapter. You could pick up a cheap external Firewire CD drive and replace the drive with a DVD-R, or remove the converter card from the box and mount a drive inside the Mac. Keeping it external means you can use it on other machines of course.
On the other hand, an external SCSI box and a SCSI-ATAPI converter (US$20) would give you a CD/DVD drive you can use on other old Macs, without needing a FW card for every machine. That would include Nubus /PDS Macs and Powerbooks.
I guess it comes down to your range of machines, and which ones you'd like to have a drive for.
| Posted by: madmann on 2010-01-22 06:31:06
I was under the impression that usb 2 will not run under os 9.x so you are stuck with usb 1.1 speeds.
I do own a sonnet tempo 133 card so this is starting to sound like the best option. I could strip out all the scsi drives and go ide.
I also have a fw external dvd dl inclosure but no fw card. What fw card would you recommend as i have had a difficult time getting a usb card to operate.
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2010-01-22 07:33:21
I was under the impression that usb 2 will not run under os 9.x so you are stuck with usb 1.1 speeds. Correct
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