[X Newbies] FW PCI Card for G4/Panther ?

Gen Hadlow Mac Impact Dbn ghadlow at iafrica.com
Wed Mar 17 21:34:10 PST 2004


On 18/3/2004 4:10 AM, "Albert D'Amanda" <adamanda at mac.com> wrote:

> Hello All
> 
> Need recommendation for a PCI FW card for my G4 that works with the
> "Sleep" function
> 
> Here is my "problem"
> 
> I purchased an Adaptec 4300 PCI card
> All worked well; driving my external 40GB FW backup drive; was able to
> read/write as normal
> 
> The problem surfaced when I enabled "Sleep" via  the Apple Menu
> The Monitor screen went dark( as normal)  but the power did not switch
> to OFF in the Tower.
> 
> I was able to recover the Monitor screen, but the display/mouse  was
> frozen!
> I had to recover via the front panel button , powering to Off, and then
> restarting
> 
> Physically removing the Adaptec PCI FW card from the Tower returned my
> system to "Normal"
> 
> BY THE WAY. With the Adaptrec Card, the Shut Down option functioned OK.
> Problem seems to be only in Sleep mode
> 
> So the bottom line is: is anyone using a PCI FW card with a dual
> G4/Panther that "works" 100%?
> 
> Thanks to all that reply
> 
> Albert
> Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4
> 1.75 GB DDR SDRAM
> Panther 10.3.2
Have you tried the Adaptec site to see if there is a new driver? I seem to
remember this problem with there 2906 scssi cards with 9.2.2 which was
sorted out with a later driver.
Gen



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