[G4] SCSI, G4 Digital Audio, and OS 10.2.8

[Paul Frye]

Wade,

I did have some problems with Booting my drive with the first release of Mac
OS-X.  No previous problems with OS-09.  I think the driver problems were
cleaned up by 10.2 to my pleasant surprise.  I bought this drive for digital
video purposes to begin with...but now I think the new machines and the new
ATA drives probably are all fast enough to work fine.

I have found 10.3.2 to work great and I don't even think about it anymore.
The hardest part was routing the LVD Scsi cable to the drive.

With the original 10 and I think 10.1 I had to boot from a secondary drive
and then set the scsi to be the startup disk on a re-start.  That problem is
long gone...and I enjoy the IBM 10000 and the Adaptec driver seems to be
incorporated into the OS system, too.  It has been transparent on my box for
the last 6 months or so.

Hope this helps and let us know what you do.

Regards,

Paul 

On 2/4/04 8:41, "Wade Perry" <wadeperry at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I would like to thank Alex, Paul, and Michael for the input regarding the
> original SCSI post . It seems there are varying opinions on the use of SCSI
> in OS X.  I have also come into an OEM copy of 10.3.1, that I am going to
> use on the second partition of the 80 Gb western digital that is my boot
> drive. 
> 
> Although I am long time Mac user, I have yet to feel completely comfortable
> with framework of OS X.
> 
> The original purpose of this post was to find a use for these SCSI drives.
> Will they work and be stable without any issues. If you are interested in
> information about the Orange Micro card, the link is:
> 
> http://www.welovemacs.com/grappler930u.html
> 
> (I am not affiliated in any way with this company)
> 
> Listed below is the System Profile report from my G4.
> 
> Software Overview:
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>   |                                                                      |
>   |  System version                :  Mac OS X 10.2.8 (6R73)             |
>   |  Boot volume                   :  OS X Drive                         |
>   |  Kernel version                :  Darwin Kernel Version 6.8:     |   |
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> Hardware Overview:
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>   |                                                                      |
>   |  Machine speed                 :  933 MHz                            |
>   |  Bus speed                     :  133 MHz                            |
>   |  Number of processors          :  1                                  |
>   |  L2 cache size                 :  256K                               |
>   |  L3 cache size                 :  2MB                                |
>   |  Machine model                 :  Power Mac G4 (version = 2.1)       |
>   |  Boot ROM info                 :  4.2.8f1                            |
>   |  Customer serial number        :  XB1024VS-KAN-ff06                  |
>   |  Sales order number            :  M7688LL/A                          |
>   |                                                                      |
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> Memory Overview: 
>   Location    Type    Size
>   DIMM0/J21    SDRAM    512 MB
>   DIMM1/J22    SDRAM    512 MB
>   DIMM2/J23    SDRAM    256 MB
>   DIMM3/J24         empty
> 
> 
> Thanks Again,