YDL support for G3, G4 cards which Macs- 9600?

[Simon Slaytor]

Hi Kenneth,

You shouldn't have any problems at all with your proposed system. I'm
currently running a PM7300 with a Sonnet G4-450 1M card installed and
stability and performance are excellent.

The only issue I have is that the BOOTX extension loads before the
Sonnet Cache enabler, I believe the 'type' of extension determines this.
I believe there is a way using RESEDIT to modify the Sonnet extension so
that it loads first but haven't managed to track down the details yet,
info anyone?

As such at present I boot into OS9, let the Sonnet software enable the
cache then use BootX to switch to YDL.

Overall the systems pretty tight and if you really need six PCI slots
there's no real alternative. If however you could get by on 3 slots I'd
recommend a Beige G3. My Beige G3 300 running YDL is just as if not more
responsive than the G4/7300 and with one of the new 800Mhz/1Ghz G3/G4
upgrades it would be a screamer. The G3 also takes standard CHEAP PC100
Dimms, uses CHEAP IDE disks and in the case of the Mini tower has a
standard $20 ATX power supply.

Regards

Simon



On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 01:29, Kenneth Browne wrote:
> Currently running YDL and MacOS9 on an old allinone PPC5500. G3-400 
> works great in MacOS but haven't figured out how to make it work in YDL. 
>   Terrasoft website indicated "intermittent problems" with daughter 
> cards on this model.
> Anyone had experience making the Sonnet L2 upgrade work under YDL?
> 
> Am considering obtaining another Mac box but if there's an upgrade to G3 
> or G4 I want to know if it will work under both MacOS and YDL. I've been 
> considering a 9600 for its versatility (6 PCI slots). Anyone know if the 
> 9600 with G4 upgrade will work under YDL?EOT - End of Tagline
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