[X4U] Audio recording [Esoteric problem]

[John R McDaniel]

On Jul 3, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> I use an old PowerMac 8500/180 running Mac OS 8 for audio work
> and I have two different system disks that I boot from, one has
> networking enabled, the other has it disabled.

This sounds like overkill. Admittedly, some 99% of my expertise in OS 8 
has log ago been flushed from my memory to make room for OS X arcana, 
but I would think that merely turning AppleTalk on and off from a 
control panel would do the trick for you. I seem to recall these issues 
going away by the time NuBus was replaced by PCI.

Unless you're bound to OS 8 by an esoteric piece of professional 
software, hardware or both, I'd think that there would be a lot of 
advantages to moving to OS 9.x, in terms of both available and 
affordable hardware/software that would not create the problem you 
describe.

> The problem is the Audio Software, Audio card, networking
> software and Network card all fight for system resources.

Network card? are you ditching the on board 10baseT in favor of 
100baseT?

Another reason to move to OS 9: OS 8.x (.0, .5 & .6?) was infamous for 
a DHCP problem that caused momentary system hangs/slow downs. To my 
recollection, Apple _really_ never fixed it until OS 9.

j mcd

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