[Duo2400] Re: Cardbus problem

[Ivan Drucker]

>All I know is that the computer freezes during startup
>if the card is inserted. I read about this a few times
>while researching the upgrade.
>
>I do not know if it is all cardbus cards or only the
>USB.

All cardbus cards (but not 16-bit cards) freeze the machine during boot 
of Mac OS 9, which is a bit of a bummer. They are ok under OS 8 and X 
however.

>Does anyone have any suggestions for a firewire card
>something reasonably priced that is OS 9 friendly.

Other World Computing (macsales.com) sell a card for $30 that they 
guarantee will work with OS 9, which I think is a pretty fair price. Note 
that most cards (including that one) have an attached connector, but I 
prefer the dongle models myself. Most likely any FireWire card will do, 
actually; I use an IBM which has no specific Mac compatibility claims. If 
you want to stick with a name brand, people on this list seem to like 
Ratoc. If you want a super cheapie card, check out eBay.

>Also do the standard Apple drivers work or do you need
>modified ones?

The two standard Apple FireWire extensions 2.7 or later (included with 
9.1) work fine. Apple's FireWire CardBus Enabler extension only works if 
the card is present at startup, so you can't use that; instead, download 
the one from fwdepot.com's support page. OS 9 may not have installed the 
two Apple FireWire extensions because of your hardware, in which case you 
should pull them out with TomeViewer (if you pull them out of the 9.2.2 
updater, you'll get the very latest versions (2.8.5)).

Ivan.

>
>Brian
>
>> >I must insert after boot up as I am running 9.1
>> 
>> 
>> Why is that?
>> 
>> >
>> >The USB does not show up in system profiler
>> >The desktop icon is a PC card icon with USB symbol
>> >inside, says USB under it
>> >
>> 
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