Post by: Steve_J on April 21, 2003, 06:16:00 PM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on April 21, 2003, 07:45:00 PM
Post by: Bill on April 21, 2003, 08:36:00 PM
Post by: kelly on April 21, 2003, 09:27:00 PM
Post by: 2nd Chance PC on April 22, 2003, 06:52:00 AM
This is especially true if your using an older machine - a G3 beige for example loses its ability to do USB card support under 9.2
Only reason I'd go to 9.2 is if your planning to go to X or are on a network with other X machines (and even then I'd hesitate).
Regards
Post by: iain on April 22, 2003, 07:40:00 AM
Appears to be fine so far apart from having to reinstall Cubase VST 5 which just wouldn't load, Logic Audio is rock solid though. Haven't had chance to give anything else a thorough going over yet.
Post by: kelly on April 22, 2003, 08:27:00 AM
Iain. If it works for you then it was a good move.
Otherwise i agree with Michael. Depends on the machine.
Post by: 2nd Chance PC on April 22, 2003, 09:51:00 AM
Iain, if it works for you I wouldn't worry...
Just a general thing we've found (I work for a refurbished Mac specialist so these kind of issues come up frequently) is that 9.2 seems to cause more problems on older machines.
You wouldn't belive how long that Beige issue took to work out over the phone...
Regards
Post by: Steve_J on April 22, 2003, 11:15:00 PM
I have a beige G3 minitower with a ZIF accelerator card running at 500MHz and set for a 66MHz system bus. It has an internal floppy drive, ZIP drive, CDROM drive and two hard drives one of which is SCSI. I also have an external hard drive, CDRW drive, and a scanner. All of which are SCSI. There's also an external 56k V.90 modem and two printers which are run on Apple/LocalTalk. I also occasionally connect my 1400 laptop via SCSI.
Post by: tacit on April 22, 2003, 11:18:00 PM
If you are not using X, then it's unlikely you'll have any good reason to move to 9.2.
Post by: Gary S on April 22, 2003, 11:25:00 PM
quote:Is that true? If it is, i'm glad you mentioned it!
G3 beige for example loses its ability to do USB card support under 9.2
I'm still running 9.1 on my beige G3 with 9.2.2 on my G4.
Post by: 2nd Chance PC on April 22, 2003, 11:50:00 PM
quote:I can't back it up with any references but we've seen it on a number of machines - all G3 Beige desktops. Take them up to 9.2 -> USB card stops working, take them down to 9.1 -> USB card works again.
Is that true?
Fairly conclusive, enough for us never to put 9.2 on a Beige again anyway. Admitedly we've never tried it on a tower, and I can't say we tested every model of the beige desktop (probably either 233 or 266 MHz versions).
Moral of the story as far as we're concerned is keep 9.2 for working with OSX and use 9.1 if you just want a 9 enviroment. As Steve_J said, there aren't really any benefits of it apart from the OSX related ones.
Regards
Post by: snuffysbluff on April 22, 2003, 12:02:00 PM
You're scaring me guys.
Post by: Gregg on April 22, 2003, 01:00:00 PM
Post by: 2nd Chance PC on April 23, 2003, 03:13:00 AM
quote:Thats interesting snuffysbluff, never did try it on a tower. Could be that or maybe different OS versions - talking with one of our tech guys it may have been 9.2 straight that we had problems with - 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 are better.
I installed 9.2.1 in my beige G3 tower last week and my two USB HP printers hooked to a hub in the base of my monitor that's connected to a 2-port USB card (took a breath) seem to work fine.
Post by: kelly on April 23, 2003, 11:01:00 PM
USB Compatibility in Mac OS 9.2
http://www.macintouch.com/mos9usb.html#apr23
Post by: snuffysbluff on April 23, 2003, 11:55:00 PM
I had the fasterbiggerbetter bug for awhile... I think I'm OK now.
Post by: 2nd Chance PC on April 24, 2003, 03:41:00 AM