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RE: hyendole2 ;-) |
August, 04, 2003 10:26 AM |
jseibyl |
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The best way to have some real tinkering fun is to add as many scsi hard drives as you can into your machine, make sure they are all different manufacturers, a mix of 50 pin 68 pin, and 80 pin will do nicely. It is best to get them for under 20 bucks each, those are the fun ones.....Have a few on a/several pci card/(s), and a couple on the main bus. It also helps if some drives are from old windoze servers (Compaq and HP are the best)which do not initialize with Apple Drive setup, so you have to use FWB to mount them up. After you have set the proper jumpers, etc, which, if you are using the above mentioned windoze drives, are usually Seagate drives that are labeled with HP or Compaq ID numbers, which makes finding out the specs/jumper settings that much more fun. I see you have a 7300 which doesn't have a lot of space for this internally, and your pci slots are all filled. For some real fun, the 8500 is best for this, as it has some space in the bottom for stuff, and not as much as a 9500. Until your fingers are bleeding from messing with an 8500, by taking out the mobo several times, etc, you haven't felt the true zen-joy of upgrading an old world mac. :-) |
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RE: Disappointed with OSX :-) |
August, 03, 2003 9:36 PM |
rsouder4 |
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hyendole2 You may want to try increasing your vnodes if you have 512Mb of ram or more. Doing so seems to help with the pauses you describe. There is a post somewhere in this forum about this and you can find more info at the apple discussion boards. In short form however, you should try going into the terminal and typing sudo sysctl -w kern.maxvnodes=84672 it'll ask for you password. Upon entering, the change will be made and will be good until re-boot. It can be made permenant, but you should try this first. |
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RE: Disappointed with OSX :-( |
August, 03, 2003 2:54 PM |
rgcost |
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Hi: I used your software for the first time and it booted back into OS. 9.1, so I erased OS X and installed Sonnet Software and installed OS X. It would not upgrad to OS 10.1. So I erasee OS X and deinstalled sonnets software and used your software and a clean OS X installed so I tried to upgrade using the upgrade CD in OS X and it failed again. Any suggestions? No one mentions the installer software that came with the card, do you some items or no items of this disk. I thought your software replaced this am I right. How do I update to OS 10.1, I have stripped just about everything out ot the machine trying to get software to load. My husband is ready to throw it out the window. Of course he is running Windows XP and know nothing about Unix and at this point in time I am really wondering why I bought the upgrade card. There must be a secret way to make all of these upgrades work on older machines. What is the secret?? Ginger Cost |
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RE: Disappointed with OSX :-) |
August, 02, 2003 6:06 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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If you haven't installed cache enabling software, this will give you a very marked increase in performance... You probably already have, since you don't seem to be complaining :~> Marty PS I Recommend Ryans L2Cache config, and the newer Powerlogix attempt seems pretty respectable also. |
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