[G4] Advice please

[Tony Gamble]

Steve,
	Apparently Apple's USB drivers were not written to support USB 2.0  
until Mac OS X, so the card should work fine in OS 9, just at USB 1.1  
speeds.  I doubt it will matter for scanning, though... I run a USB  
scanner on my iBook with USB 2.0 ports and have noticed no difference  
in scanning speeds.  I imagine the device itself must provide support  
for USB 2.0 before you see any benefit from the matched port.
	As for the drive interface, yes, your machine is equipped with ATA/ 
66, but you'd be much better off connecting the new drive to that 133  
combo card with an 80-wire cable.  Bear in mind, though, that  
sometimes, some blank media will burn at slower speeds than stated on  
their packaging, so don't be too quick to judge poor performance on  
the drive.  I recently discovered this when I was attracted to a  
great price on a Vakoss brand 8X DVD+R, which burned at 8X in my  
Pioneer 107D on the G4 MDD, but only at a paltry 2X on my iBook's  
Matsushita burner.

Tony


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> 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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