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Author Topic: How compatible is OS9 stuff with OS8.6?  (Read 38975 times)

supernova777

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Re: How compatible is OS9 stuff with OS8.6?
« Reply #60 on: August 21, 2014, 10:56:32 PM »

if it was my oldschool powermac 9600/9500 i would get any ATA-133 card.. and a sata/ide adapter.. and a brand new 80gb sata drive which costs about 15$ at my local store now.. so cheap! but its a SATA3 hard drive. brand new. made in the last few months (yes 2014!) the combination of new disk performance with trusted compatibility of the ata-133 = win!

ssd are faster for read.... so better to use a ssd for the boot drive..
new sata3 hd's built recently are crazy fast for reading + writing.. when compared to even 2005 hard drives..
(its almost 10 years of practice inbetween the manufacturers have had)

i would do this..
1 x acard 6880m raid adapter pci 32bits..(which provide 4 ports)
4 x sata/ide converters (@ $2-3 each off ebay, just to have them around to allow for any possible config)
2 x ata/133 ide cables (with master/slave connections for 2 drives each)
4 x molex power splitter (in case you need them)

port 1: SSD boot drive (kingspec 32gb would do nice or 64gb SSD like a samsung or ocz.. any brand)
port 2: [recording audio drive] - new sata3 hd 500gb
port 3 & 4 : two drives in raid1 - providing fast loading of project files/samples AND safety at the same time!
(2 copies of the data to share the read-load so read speed is doubled)

another possible config could be
port1:SSD boot drive
port2:backup mirror of port 1 (1&2 ports in raid1 for safety)
port3: [recording drive]  new sata3 hd 500gb
port4: connected to sata dvd via sata/ide adapter
(maybe one of these new dvd drives that mactron posted about)

or u could use a raid1 for your audio record drive for safety..
anyway just some ideas

but maybe this would be best config:
port 1: SSD boot drive
port 2: cd/DVD
port 3 & 4 : two drives in raid1 - providing fast loading of project files/samples AND safety at the same time!
(2 copies of the data to share the read-load so read speed is doubled)

im pretty sure that a new sata cd/dvd will be able to read discs faster then ata-33 speed..
im not even sure. does these old 600 series cpu powerpc have ata-33 bus?

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac/specs/powermac_9600_300.html
this makes no mention of ata-33 or ata-66 so u must need ATA/SATA to even have a cd?
or else u would be using what.. a scsi oldschool crappy cd? no way!!
« Last Edit: August 21, 2014, 11:10:42 PM by chrisNova777 »
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supernova777

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Re: How compatible is OS9 stuff with OS8.6?
« Reply #61 on: August 21, 2014, 11:13:56 PM »

http://lowendmac.com/1995/power-mac-9500/
heres a good page of links on the subject? but lowendmac.com is freaking slow..
what are they running this website off? a macintosh se ? :)


http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/firewire/firewire_combo_cards.html
some info on fw/usb combos
orange micro fw usb is one i read people thought was good?
« Last Edit: August 22, 2014, 12:42:57 AM by chrisNova777 »
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supernova777

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Re: How compatible is OS9 stuff with OS8.6?
« Reply #62 on: October 02, 2014, 04:14:09 AM »

USB/FireWire card - USB Hub for mouse/keyboard/dongle
MOTU 324 card - 4x ADAT Lightpipe
SATA card - SSD drive for OS 8.6 & software
IDE card - 1TB storage HD
Video card 1 - Monitor 1
Video card 2 - Monitor 2

are u using a 2408mk1? which motu is giving u 4xADAT? dont u mean 3xADAT ;D
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Syntho

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Re: How compatible is OS9 stuff with OS8.6?
« Reply #63 on: October 02, 2014, 04:44:46 AM »

I have two of them.
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