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

[Paul Frye]

Emperor's Challenge would solve the Shanghai II problem.  It is a great,
inexpensive game.  Just got it for my wife as I contemplate moving her iMac
to Panther.

Regards,

Paul

On 2/4/04 12:37, "Michael L. Brown" <brownml at adelphia.net> wrote:

> 
>> Jaguar is Mac OS X v10.2. You may be talking about earlier versions
>> of OS X. Jaguar supported SCSI out of the box.
>> 
>>> [...] the inability to boot off of my external Zip drive in OS
>>> 9.2.2 drove the move away from SCSI and to FireWire.
>> 
>> Are we talking OS X or OS 9.2.2? Are you talking SCSI problems or
>> Zip drive problems?
> 
> A combination really. My problem was that I needed to boot my G4/400
> from the slower-than-molasses SCSI Zip 100 which was connected to the
> bootable Orange Micro 930U, with the external hard drive in the
> chain. This left the burner on the Orange Micro 907, which was too
> slow to support it. This was during the period when I was playing
> with OS 10.1 through OS 10.1.5, but doing my graphics work in OS 9.2.
> 
> So I fixed my boot issue and cluttered desktop by installing a second
> IDE internal drive, which has OS 9.2.2 and my OS 9 based diagnostic
> software on it. Then over the next year, bought my Pioneer DVD-RW
> DVR-105, a FireWire enclosure for the Hitachi CD/DVD-R that came in
> the G4, and eventually a second FireWrive enclosure for a 120GB
> ATA/IDE drive to back up everything on the previous two with
> Retrospect. Lesson learned with the SCSI external drive... backing up
> is much faster to a hard drive than CD-Rs, DVD-Rs or Zip drives.
> 
> Maybe I never gave Jaguar a chance with SCSI. By the time it was
> released, my daughter had moved from the PM7200 to an iMac 400 DV/SE
> and I never really needed SCSI, afterward. She is still using OS
> 9.2.2, but I hardly ever use it any more. With exception of Shanghai
> II, which my wife loves, and TypeStyler3 for creating logos in
> encapsulated postscript for brochures, I could dump OS 9.2.2 and
> Classic altogether.
> 
> Mike