Re: Question on Sonnet's Tempo Trio Card

["vinai" <vroopcha@mcw.edu>]

> Since I have recently received a G3 upgrade card for an old PowerMac
> 9500 that my uncle once lent me and since now I have 192MB of memory,
> the system is a bit more usable than it was ealier.
>
> Since the disk is now a bottleneck, I was thinking of upgrading the
> system with a Sonnet's Tempo Trio card, that has information available
> at <http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_trio.html>.

Rogerio,

Take a look at this page:

    http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/sonnet_ide_cards_and_10_2.html

According to the information there, the Trio has a Promise chipset, and
I believe the linux kernel does indeed have support for this family of
silicon.

Just as an aside bit of info - I tried a dual-function PCI card (USB and
firewire) in my 8500, which I could never get to work.  I don't know if
it was my 8500, the card, or the kernel (this was with a 2.4.2? kernel),
but I always had problems with the firewire functions on that card. And
the problems were not confined to a single card.  I asked my vendor if
I could try another brand of multi-function card, and there was the same
effect.  I will also admit that all my slots on this machine are filled
- max RAM, SATA card (which works really well) and an ATI card, and even
moving things around (swapping card between slots) did not help either.

Hope this info helps.

cheers
vinai