[G4] Oxford 900 chip instead of the 911

jgvp jgvp at cogeco.ca
Tue Oct 7 08:00:42 PDT 2003


I've been using an ADS Pyro FW enclosure for years now, since they 
first came out, with various Macs during that time. I am currently 
running a G4 Quicksilver and despite the 900 chip I have never 
experienced any problems with it even though I use it exclusively for 
iMovie projects.


On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 08:11  AM, Power Macintosh G4 List 
wrote:

> Message-ID: <3F8296BD.8070809 at xs4all.nl>
> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:34:37 +0200
> From: Marc van Gemert <listz at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: [G4] Oxford 900 chip instead of the 911
>
> Richard Kriss wrote:
>
>> Anybody had experience with the  ADS Pyro 1394 Drive Kit and/or the 
>> Oxford
>> 900 chip on a G4 running OSX 10.2.xx?
>
> Just get a FW enclosure with an Oxford 911 chip, there were a lot of
> problems when only the 900 chip was available in FW enclosures used 
> with
> a Mac. Also IIRC the ADS Pyro enclosures have a transistor which can be
> blown if plugged in a FW port. But I'm not sure if it's the ADS Pyro,
> could also be another brand. Anyway get an enclosure with an Oxford 
> 911.
>
>



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