"I just got off the phone with Indiana at MacZone - 1-800-454-3686 x3133 - and they have Radeons in stock and ready to order! Mine's coming in tomorrow.

Thought you might like to know!
Dodita Cook"

If you missed it, I posted a detailed review of the Radeon AGP card including 2d, 3d, gaming, video out/DVD performance and more. Remember the AGP card only fits in G4/AGP systems. The PCI Radeon card may ship near the end of this month based on the original estimated release dates, although I've heard of no firm ship date yet.

BTW - Outpost.com has a link to the $30 ATI Rebate (PDF file) on the Radeon good for USA and Canada customers only (offer good from 10/1/2000 to 1/15/2001 - see rebate PDF file for more details).

" Worthless on a G4/500 with Radeon! Exhibits most of the previously mentioned problems with extensions not loading, video digitizer not being found. Does not support sleep mode for pci bus, so I can't put the computer to sleep. If I leave the computer on, with no activity for a while, it crashes. If I do a simple restart, the computer will not boot (just a black screen). In order to get the thing to boot with this card installed, I have to first disconnect the second monitor, successfully start, shutdown, re-attach the second monitor and restart again. I have tried calling ATI tech support...no answer, I've sent multiple emails and "problem reports". The only response I've seen is an automated response saying that they received my report, but are very busy right now....here are the links to the FAQs (which I've memorized by now). Unfortunately, dwelling in "Macdom" doesn't leave me with many other choices. I think I'll try a Formac card and see how that goes.

Thanks for hearing my vent...I've lost a lot of time on this,
Jack S. "

As far as I know only the retail Radeon cards support deep sleep - I don't think even the Formac Prof. 3 does with the latest firmware updates, but I could be wrong. (The FAQ's Apple G4 section has a note on this.) Even the Voodoo5 does not allow deep sleep here. Most PCI cards I suspect don't support it either (the 2930 Adaptec card with the latest rom does, but not sure on Initio or ATTO SCSI cards).

" Hey Mike,
I've been using the Sony Usb Memory stick reader for a few months now with my Sony 8mm Digital Camera. It lets you shoot regular photographs onto the memory sticks and it accepts 4,8,16,32, and 64 meg memory sticks. You just pop the stick out of the camera and plug it into the usb reader.

It just mounts the Stick on your desktop as a drive and you can drag and drop till your hearts content. It copies very fast, transferring 10megs of pictures took less than 20secs. To install the usb reader, you just drag 2 extensions to the extension folder and restart. The cd it comes with is mac/pc, I think for pc, you must install a program to use it, but I'm not for sure.

This is a nice way to back up files too for those who own B/W G3's, G4's, or iMac's without a floppy drive. Now if I could only afford the Sony Pen Mp3 player;-)
Great Site,
Sandy "

I don't think the pen player uses a memory stick from the one I saw at Circuit City here, but their Memory Stick Walkman does (but at $399 list, it's very expensive). Cnet liked the design, but as I noted in the Sony Vaio SR17 subnotebook review, the "MagicGate" copyright proctection is considered a negative for end users. Cnet's review of the Mem. Stick Walkman player commented on this as well.

The intro page of the illustrated article shows examples of how to set IDs and Termination which also should be of help. (Remember only the last drive on the cable is terminated. If using Ultra2/LVD drives, you'll need an terminator block as these drives don't have on-disk termination. Many Ultra2 SCSI cables come with a terminator at the end of the cable for this purpose.)

Due to possible cable length issues and for best performance with today's faster wide SCSI drives, I'd suggest a PCI SCSI card rather than the 10MB/sec onboard SCSI. The SCSI page here has past reviews of Ultra2 and UltraWide Mac SCSI controllers. There's also an article on Adaptec's Ultra160 SCSI controller there.

Of course you could also mount 2 IDE drives as well using a PCI IDE controller. For that just make sure the IDE drives are set to Master or Single drive (if a Western Digital drive) and connect an IDE cable to each drive, using both ports on the IDE card (IDE can't write to two drives on the same channel simultaneously, so for RAID use both channels with a master on each). I'm not a big fan of IDE RAID, but there's how-to articles listed on the IDE reviews/articles page here. (Also note that OS X Beta does not support PCI IDE cards.)

DVD-ROM Drives:
• IDE AOpen 6x DVD in S900 w/PCI IDE card
  (didn't work, Mac PCI IDE cards don't usually support ATAPI devices)
  
  CDROM Drives:
• Plextor SCSI UltraPlex 40UW in S900
• Kenwood SCSI TrueX 52x in S900
  
  CDRW Drives:
• Plextor IDE PlexWriter 12/10/32A in B&W G3
• Yamaha IDE 8424E in Dual G4
  
  Hard Drives:
• IBM 75GXP 75GB in B&W G3 rev 1
  (ran Intech's Integrity test for 4 days straight with no errors!)
• IBM 75GXP 46GB in G4/AGP
• IBM 75GXP 46GB in Dual G4
• IBM SCSI DCHS-09W 9GB in 6400 (w/Initio Miles SCSI card)
• Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 20GB in Beige G3 (w/PCI IDE card)
• Western Digital 6GB (5400 rpm) in B&W G3 rev 1
  (mounted in ZIP drive bay)
  
  Removables:
• OEM IDE ZIP 250 in Dual G4
  (noted problems reading some of his 100MB Fuji disks)

You can find these full reports by searching the database with the drive/brand/mac models listed above selected (the latest reports are shown first in searches).
If you've added a IDE, SCSI, Firewire or USB hard drive, CDRW, tape drive, etc. make sure you add a report to the database.

• Other World Computing G3/450 (running 500) in Beige G3/233 (rated 10)
• Sonnet G3/400 in Powerbook 1400 (rated )
  (includes comments on installation)
• XLR8 G3/466 (running 500) in Beige G3/233 (rated 9)
• XLR8 CarrierZIF w/OWC G3/466 in S900 (rated 8)

You can find these full reports by searching the database selecting the indicated Mac model and upgrade card brand/type. If you've upgraded the CPU on your Mac, please post an entry in the database. Search the database of over 4,700 entries from most every upgradable Mac model *before* you buy. (Searchable by mac model/upgrade brand)

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• iMac: Connecting a USB Device
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• Apple Studio Display 17: Removing Vertical Lines from Display
• Power Mac G4 Cube: Connect USB Speakers to Computer or Display
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