XLR8 is back in business! |
February, 18, 2003 4:56 PM |
sneitzel |
I just came across this info. From www.xlr8.com: "As of January 1, 2003, XLR8 brand products are manuafactured and marketed by Daystar Technology" http://daystartechnology.com/ It looks like they have a support section as well as product sales. Scott |
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RE: XLR8 is back in business! |
March, 01, 2003 1:22 PM |
paul_findley |
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dclores: XLR8 MachSpeedControl 2.6.1 (newest) fails to intialize L2 cache on my OWC G3 on a XLR8 carrier card since 10.2. I don't remember if it hangs or what, it was a while ago. Don't know if it still works on an XLR8 G3. I doubt it. I switched to powerlogix's cache enabler. Very automatic. Doesn't need to be setup like Ryan's L2chacheconfig. Free on their web site. |
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RE: XLR8 is back in business! |
March, 01, 2003 1:16 PM |
paul_findley |
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dcolores: The product that caused me problems was an XLR8 carrier card with an XLR8 G4 400 ZIF (bundled and set up by XLR8 into a single product). fixitjc: XLR8 never supported any flavor of OSX for legacy PCI macs. They just passed the buck to Ryan by a link to OWC, and wouldn't help with any problems, like the repeatedly corrupted NVRAM that I and a few others suffered. Their MachSpeedControl for their ZIF upgrades for supported beige G3 machines just happened to work on legacy PCI machines (like my 7500) thru 10.1.x. Interestingly, once the problem started, it was also a problem in OS 9. The XLR8 G4 wouldn't boot until you went thru a certain amount of the voodoo that I described. It also disabled my motherboard clock (weird, with fresh battery), until I installed the Sonnet 800, which brought it back to life. I use another XLR8 carrier card with an OWC G3 400 ZIF (now in an 8500), and I have never had trouble with it. I did have very similar NVRAM-type problems when I tried swapping out the G3 for an OWC G4 once (and returned the G4). Maybe it is just something about some 7500-8500s. The Sonnet G4 800 has beeen fine in my 7500 (never tried in 8500 but I'm sure it would be fine). |
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RE: XLR8 is back in business! |
February, 28, 2003 11:27 PM |
dcolores |
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matti.haveri said, "XLR8 MACh Speed Control isn't compatible with 10.2". Can you be more specific? What are the incompatibilities? Just won't run under 10.2, or does it cause OS X problems or Disk format errors under OSX? What errors? I have used XLR8 MACh Speed Control since installing my XLR8 CarrierZIF and a NewerTech G4 400/200. |
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RE: XLR8 is back in business! |
February, 27, 2003 12:23 PM |
matti.haveri |
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AFAIK the XLR8 MACh Speed Control isn't compatible with 10.2. Does Daystar plan to update it? |
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RE: XLR8 is back in business! |
February, 24, 2003 10:09 PM |
fixitjc |
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Found my XLR8 G3 & G4 Installation and User Manual - page 21: "Note:Although many manufacturers' cards can be supported on the carrier upgrade card, XLR8 can only assure fully-compatible performance with Apple® Zif upgrade cards, XLR8's MACh Speed Zif cards, or XLR8's MACh Carrier daughtercards (with and without jumper enhancements)." Whew with one hand, a typest I am not. hope that helps |
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RE: XLR8 is back in business! |
February, 24, 2003 4:37 PM |
sneitzel |
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I am remembering in my literature that any industury standard ZIF was supported. Maybe I'm wrong but I kno I still have it and will check later this evening. Scott |
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February, 24, 2003 3:24 PM |
fixitjc |
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Steve: I seem to remember in the original literature that XLR8 supported XLR8 and Apple ZIF's. Can't find my paperwork at the moment, but I believe I read that somewhere in the product discription. Jim |
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RE: XLR8 is back in business! |
February, 24, 2003 12:52 PM |
dcolores |
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Paul, I am curious if your comment, the cause of the problem, is related to the XLR8 CarrierZIF or XLR8 G4 processors. I have a CarrierZIF but the G4/400 is a NewerTech product. I have a stable OS 9, but get what appears to be occasional induced disk format errors using OS 10. I don't know how to test NVRAM, but Disk Doctor, Disk Utility and Disk Warrior have all found and corrected problems that reoccur (not necessarily the same error each time) later on. Reformatting the HDs haven't made the problem go away either. Can't seem to get stable disk formats under OS 10, and version up to 10.2.4. Problem is on a PowerMac 7300 upgraded with XLR8 CarrierZIF and a NewerTech G4 400/200, with an Acard 133 supporting two EIDE drives (floppy removed) and a TDK CDRW, the original SCSI 2GB hard drive, 896MB RAM, and a terminated SCSI tail supporting an Iomega ZIP 100, a UMax 600S scanner and the original CD-ROM in a 3.5" case, running 10.2.4 and 9.1. See the "Classic Fails on 7300" thread for a broader description. Steve Seiden |
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RE: XLR8 is back in business! |
February, 19, 2003 6:45 AM |
kbata |
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My XLR8 Carrier card with an XLR 8 450 G4 has always worked flawlessly for me using all versions of OS X. I think that some people on this forum have had some problems with them but it sounds like some people have hade various problems with all kinds of upgrade cards. |
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RE: XLR8 is back in business! |
February, 19, 2003 1:13 AM |
fixitjc |
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Actually I believe if you don't use their software you will be fine, it wasn't compatable with the newer versions of OSX anyway. I am using an XLR8 card with no problems using Ryan's L2 software with XPF |
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RE: XLR8 is back in business! |
February, 19, 2003 12:36 AM |
paul_findley |
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Caution on any XLR8 G4 solution for PCI old world macs with OS X. There has been a lot written in these forums about the NVRAM getting corrupted after a couple of reboots, and the hassle of fixing it (VooDoo with CUDA switch, battery removal, emergency boot disk, phase of moon, etc.), only to have it happen all over again. I personally had to return an XLR8 card for these symptoms, just before they went belly up. Unless Daystar acknowledges the problem and has done something specific to fix it, I wouldn't risk it. |