My VST 6Gb drive is not hot swappable, and causes finder quits at startup. Anyone using these drives with success in OS 8.6?

The conflict appears to be with my SCSI card software. By disabling the 2906 extension, the FireDrive works as predicted. Any suggestions?

Turns out that backing up to my CD-R is now prohibited from the Firewire Drive. Anyone have any guesses as to why this might be (aside from me needing the 2906 extension?)

Has anyone been able to sync using the iMac IrDA with PDAs? I have a TI Avigo and only have Windoze software. Therefore, I will need to sync through Virtual PC. Looking for some…

A friend of mine is a wintel user - he can't help it, he's an IS person for a living and doesn't know any better - and has offered to put some high-res digital photos on cd for me,…

I have a Rev. A beige G3 266 MT. Recently i had to install a second IDE drive, forcing me to remove the IDE CD drive from the machine as it can handle only 2 IDE devices. I've bee…

We just got a Plextor SCSI CD-RW in our beige G3. It weent in pretty easy, and came with very good instructions, but I haven't used it enough to give you I good idea of how well i…

Well, my company allowed me to shed my Wintel machine for an iMac. Using DAVE, I've been able to network with the other Windows machines; however, I need a connection to our SGI se…

The iprotv is a tv tuner and scsi port for the mezzenene slot the rev a and b imacs. Does anyone know where I can buy it? http://formac.com/usa/html/products/tv-tuner/iprotv.html

Hi, Often when the finder on my beige G3 accesses the CD drive (even when just checking it when I try to save a file) the entire system lags for a few seconds. It seems like this…

yes by chance did you buy this at mac mart

No, I bought it at the apple store. Have you come up with any solutions to the problem?

is it a cd or is it a dvd

I have a beige G3 with DVD that exhibits the same delay while the disk is being spun up. It'd be nice if it didn't happen!

I have the same problem exept I have a 6500 with a 12X CD drive. The whole computer momentarally freezes while the CD gets spun up and accessed. Its especially annoying when you ar…

Congratulations, you have just discovered the down side of IDE devices, the CPU is involved in the use of the IDE device so every reference will have a negative impact on your mach…

duplicate deleted Don't ya just hate computers.. [This message has been edited by sedgwick (edited 08-17-99).]

It's a CD drive, not DVD. sedgwick, the processor idea makes sense, but I'm not sure it explains why the entire computer "locks up". I literally can't do anything but move the …

I wonder if the difference between a Mac and PC with an IDE CD-ROM is that Windows is not as actively aware of whether disks are inserted into drives (CDs, floppies, etc)- I've hea…

I have a 6100 with an ex 32x SCSI CD-ROM and everytime I insertn a CD it takes abour 3-4 seconds for the computer to become responcive.

I have a 6100 with an ex 32x SCSI CD-ROM and everytime I insertn a CD it takes abour 3-4 seconds for the computer to become responcive.

Peecees will not let you write to an empty drive. Nice idea, though :-) In addition, peecees *do* have the same delay, IF they are waiting for data from the drive in an active pro…

I have an older mac that only has scsi, and i am drooling at the cheaper prices of IDE/ATA drives. is there any way (perhaps with a PCI card) that i can use IDE/ATA devices on my m…

see www.promax.com for an IDE upgrade kit via a PCI card

I just bought a Maxtor Diamondmax 10.2 gig IDE drive for my beige G3/266 desktop. I want to install it as a slave device, since I don't have a zip drive in the drive bay. However, …