sonnet upgrade for 9500/132

[Derick Centeno]

Nothing is truly "straightforward"...although I have heard that nearly
everything is potentially solvable and others merely appear so.  You
need to provide more detailed information regarding your hardware, what
you are running etc.

Extensions usually refer to something the Mac OS is running, and an old
Mac OS is picky about what order the extensions boot up.  That however
can be best controlled via a control panels app which controls
extensions; I forgot which it is.  A shorter route rather than playing
guessing games to figure out which extensions should come first is to
run TechTools Pro on the Mac let it test the hardware and extensions and
everything else and you'll get a report on which extensions are in
conflict with one another as well as details regarding hardware
problems.  Follow whatever TechTools Pro recommends, even if it
recommends tossing a favorite extension.  There may be updates to said
extensions but I think anything for the Classic OS is a dead end anyway.
You may have to do a full Mac OS reinstall from scratch...see what
TechTools Pro says.

Linux can run in a really tiny space, in short 9 Gigs is plenty of space
as long as you are not booting from the external drive and expecting
Linux to run from there.  If you are attempting that then follow the
instructions for doing that posted on:

http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/start

There are some really useful information there; however the website
appears to be down for some reason.  Try them sometime at your
convenience, maybe they'll be up.  

Again, upgrade to a G3 from what?  My meaning is that you did not
specify what computer you are using.  Depending on the Mac you use
getting a USB card would either be a waste, an advantage or the silliest
thing one could do.

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 23:58, Brandon Payne wrote:
> is it pretty straightforward getting
> the sonnet cards to work, is there one 
> i should buy, one to avoid?
> something about making 3 extensions load in the 
> right order?
> anyway my external 9 gig w/ ydl 3.01 craps
> out all the time
> i was thinking about 20 gigs internal and a g3 upgrade
> and i'd be happy for a while do usb cards work pretty well
> w/ ydl?
> 
> -brandon
> 
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