I ended up formatting the 2.5" drive in an external case connected to my G4 Cube running OS 9 via FW400. I initially used Intech's HD SpeedTools 3.6 (OS 9 edition) to format the drive into 3 partitions:
1) 650MB
2) 6.8GB
3) The remaining space
Benchmarks show a big speed bump in READs because of the optimization that the Intech driver offers. However, I had trouble booting from the drive after installing OS 9 on it. I would get the folder with the flashing "?" mark in it. So I reformatted the drive using Apple's Disk Utility, did a fresh install of OS 9, and then I could boot. It sickens me though because Intech SpeedTools is supposed to work with OS 9. I must therefore assume that it does work with OS 9, just not on a Wallstreet! Still makes me sick though. The Intech driver is faster than Apple's.
But my Sonnet 500MHz G4 card must have some problems because nothing I do will keep it from freezing. It's strange. It never freezes while the computer is booting. It only freezes once it gets to the desktop (in OS 9) and all the icons display. Sometimes it freezes right away, and other times it takes 30s, and other times it takes a couple minutes. Sometimes it will freeze when I do nothing at all. And other times it will freeze when I click around on screen.
Here are photos of the front/back sides of my Sonnet card, and my two sets of RAM:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103365672326265854011/PowerBookG3WallstreetStuff
I know the RAM is good because it works great in my stock Apple 266MHz CPU card. I even tried putting only one 64MB RAM card in the top slot of the Sonnet CPU card (some people online say that's a good test to perform), but the machine still locks up after booting to the OS 9 desktop. No freezes whatsoever when I use the 266MHz CPU card though, in either one of my two Wallstreets.
1) 650MB
2) 6.8GB
3) The remaining space
Benchmarks show a big speed bump in READs because of the optimization that the Intech driver offers. However, I had trouble booting from the drive after installing OS 9 on it. I would get the folder with the flashing "?" mark in it. So I reformatted the drive using Apple's Disk Utility, did a fresh install of OS 9, and then I could boot. It sickens me though because Intech SpeedTools is supposed to work with OS 9. I must therefore assume that it does work with OS 9, just not on a Wallstreet! Still makes me sick though. The Intech driver is faster than Apple's.
But my Sonnet 500MHz G4 card must have some problems because nothing I do will keep it from freezing. It's strange. It never freezes while the computer is booting. It only freezes once it gets to the desktop (in OS 9) and all the icons display. Sometimes it freezes right away, and other times it takes 30s, and other times it takes a couple minutes. Sometimes it will freeze when I do nothing at all. And other times it will freeze when I click around on screen.
Here are photos of the front/back sides of my Sonnet card, and my two sets of RAM:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103365672326265854011/PowerBookG3WallstreetStuff
I know the RAM is good because it works great in my stock Apple 266MHz CPU card. I even tried putting only one 64MB RAM card in the top slot of the Sonnet CPU card (some people online say that's a good test to perform), but the machine still locks up after booting to the OS 9 desktop. No freezes whatsoever when I use the 266MHz CPU card though, in either one of my two Wallstreets.