The ide bus can only have 1 master and 1 slave on the chain. If you want more IDE drives, you need a second IDE connector from a 3rd party card. JohnW

I recently purchased a SyQuest SKYDATA 200MB 5.25" SCSI drive from a graphics company that was blowing out its stock so it could upgrade to newer Mac systems. My problem is that I…

I have a Rev/A iMac and I've seen a couple of 3rd party "reset buttons" that plug into the reset hole on the side of the iMac making it easier to reset the machine. Unfortunately,…

www.imacresetbutton.com .

Hi Folks I'm new here to this forum, and I have some questions I would like some input on if anyone can help me on it. I really want to get a new iMAC. I feel that they are a grea…

Hi, Here's a cheap way to get a floppy drive for your iMac when you buy it. Since you'll probably need a USB-serial adapter anyway, why not pick up a Mac SE/30 or better? They can…

I was in your position a bit ago -- I had a bunch of SCSI periphs & an ADB printer. But I bought an iMac August 15, anyway. I just kept the Performa with all the periphs &…

There are USB to SCSI and USB to serial and USB to ADB connectors now.

tgrant do you know of a way to use a imac as a monitor for a B&W G3. I have seen i done and really need to know how

Hi all. I have to transfer some data from a performa 6360 (no ehternet) to an iMac. I plan to dump the data into an external HD (non HFS+) connect it to my Powercenter Pro 210 (n…

There shouldn't be any problems doing your transfer. ------------------ -- Dave Gammage, MCSE Network Administrator Stouse, Inc.

If you are going to be passing data back and forth all the time, there are two ways we use to speed things up: First, most of our machines have Zip disk drives. That's our usual "…

Hi, I've done what you've mentioned and had no problems. I assume you want to use Appletalk, so you'll have to select "Ethernet" in the Appletalk control panel. Then you have to o…

I've bought 10 blue and white G3's for my compnay. Over a period of a week, 3 have discontinued to boot. No chime, but power is on and the drive spins up. After a little troublesho…

Thanks for the infor. My company bought 42 and one of the new g3 montior card when south. Got a replacement in two days. ------------------ David Stafford dms@fastlane.net

I have heard that FileMaker Pro Server for windows NT is much faster than FileMaker Pro Server for Mac OS. Is this true? And do you think the Mac OS X version will be faster than N…

I would wait and hold out for OS X Server before making a switch over to NT. NT is a good product, but there are a lot of little bugs and fixes to know about if you are running a M…

How many user's and database's are you supporting? Are your user connecting by AppleTalk or TCP-IP to the FileMaker Pro Server? Connecting to the database via IP better than AT. …

Our office is composed of Mac workstations, and Sun servers. Our one token NT machine is the File Maker server. We haven't had any problems with it, It has never crashed on it's ow…

I work in an office with an NT 4.0 network, Novell 5.0 & Unix networks. The NT is a piece of crap. We'd feel lucky if it only crashed once a month! Novell, on the other hand…

Does anybody know what if any length limitations there are in a mac to mac ethernet connection, and where I could find various lenghts of ethernet cable w/ RJ-45 jacks at each end.…

I don't know how far they can go but, to get long lengths, you have to go to your dealer or anyone that can make cables and ask them to make it and how long it can go.

Category 5 Ethernet cable runs can be a maximum of 100 meters without any sort of repeater. Anything longer than that will require a repeater inline. Are you utilizing a hub-to-hub…

I need help as fast as I can get it. I need to figure out how to connect my new BW G3 to my trusty HP 5MP printer. Keyspan USB to serial does not work. Has someone figured it out? …

Farallon makes some LocalTalk to Ethernet connectors. Check their web site.