[G4] Advice please

[Jay Reiter]

Steve - I might be able to help a little with your advice query.
Replacing the CD drive with the Pioneer 111D is about as easy as it 
gets. I am nervous when entering the guts of my Quicksilver, and I did 
the same replacement in about 15 minutes, including time to calm the 
butterflies in my gut. Try the OWC website for very detailed ( with 
step-by-step ) photos  of the install procedure.
I also looked at the sweet multiport, but was informed by the dealer - 
who is a top flight Mac mecahnic that "

it uses the a jumper from your built
in firewire and usb.  You end up with more ports total though but are
relagated to the built in speeds."

I can't speak to your USB 2.0/FW 800 question as it relates to OS9.
Hope that helps,
jay


SLarsonIH at aol.com wrote:
> Hi Listers,
>
> A couple of questions...
> I have a first gen QuickSilver that will get a dual 1.8GHz upgrade in the 
> near future, In the meantime, I plan to replace the CD drive with a Pioneer 111D, 
> a FW/USB2 card and a Sweet Multiport.
>
> So, my questions are: Has anyone done any of this? OWC mentions "PERFORMANCE 
> REQUIREMENT: To achieve the specified writing and reading performance it is 
> important that the DVR-111D is connected to the IDE port via an 80 way ribbon 
> cable and that the IDE port is at least UDMA 66 or above." Does my QS have this 
> and if not, what do I need? I do have a MacSense SATA/IDE133 combo PCI card 
> installed.
>
> I have a lot of photo scanning to do over the next year, and the progress bar 
> is still going while the scanner is returning to home position, so I assume 
> that going from USB 1.1 to USB 2.0 should speed things up. As long as I'm 
> speeding up USB, why not FW? The unit I'm looking at is the  "SIIG FireWire 800 
> (1394B) + USB 2.0 PCI Combo Card - For Power Macintosh Blue & White G3 or Later 
> (SIINN8US212)" My question is, is it possible to get USB2.0 speeds and/or FW800 
> in OS9?
>
> Please, no comments about using OSX. If you must comment to me about OSX, do 
> it directly (off list), and I'll explain to you why that doesn't work for me 
> for now. Thanks.
>
> Anybody installed the Sweet Multiport and hooked it up to the 3rd party 
> USB/FW card so that they have USB2.0 and FW800 in the front of their G4.
>
> STeve
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