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I've got an ATA card as well - but I moved it to the Blue and White (everything, actually, to the blue and white) except for the power cable, which went into the Mini when I turned it OFF.
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I do have a 4MB VRAM upgrade, so that puts it up to 6MB total. It's totally lame, but unless I found an ATI Rage 128 PCI card for free it's not gonna change.
The hard drive in there now is faster than the built-in ATA bus so that's maxed out too.
Not sure how the SCSI bridge would help since that runs off the ATA bus right?
Thanks for the suggestions.
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As soon as I get my old PowerMac 8500 (with G3/366 card) back, I might just try installing Tiger on the thing (it's already running Panther, actually).
Thankfully it's pretty well-equipped with RAM (got some of those old 128MB FPM DIMMs on the cheap a while ago), has a Radeon 7000 video card, &c. &c. That 9GB SCSI drive is looking a bit small these days...
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Not sure if the ACARD would help, though it does attach to the SCSI chain rather than the IDE bus, which should (in theory) take some load off the CPU, since IDE is handled by the CPU and SCSI by the controller.
Specs for the bridge say "SCSI host interface synchronous transfer rate up to 20 MB/sec."
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I've got a B&W G3 400 that I'm waiting to turn into a server with a RAID 5 SATA array when I get some cash to do so. It's got a PCI SCSI card and 2 SCSI drives (a 9GB drive and another 18 or 32GB drive). I'll offer the SCSI card and drives to anyone for REAL cheap if you're interested.
The RAM is obviously staying, there's 768MB of RAM right now, though I think it'd be advantageous to swap out one of the 128MB modules, if not both, for another 256MB module and get myself up to 896MB or hit the 1GB limit.
How does 10.4 run on the lower MHz G3's with modest RAM, i.e. >640MB?
~A
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I just loaded up tiger on a 350MHz Smurf with 640MB of RAM and the stock video card and it works just dandy for normal web stuff and even lightweight Photoshop (CS) stuff.
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Most likely, I can check tomorrow morning when I head into work!
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[quote incognegro]Not sure if the ACARD would help, though it does attach to the SCSI chain rather than the IDE bus, which should (in theory) take some load off the CPU, since IDE is handled by the CPU and SCSI by the controller.
Specs for the bridge say "SCSI host interface synchronous transfer rate up to 20 MB/sec."
Unless there is a faster SCSI bus supplied by a PCI card, there would be no advantage to using an IDE-SCSI bridge. The internal SCSI bus on the logic board of a Beige G3 is just 5 MB/s, the ATA bus from it is 16 MB/s. If you can find an ATA33 or ATA66 card that will work in a Beige, that would be faster.
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Hey, Mike -- If a 256M PC100 would help, it's yours. PM me your mailing address.
