Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 27 Jul 00 Volume 17 : Issue 118 Today's Topics: (Q) Conflict Catcher reports memory conflict [*] D-Sound Pro 3.5.1J - Japanese Version [*] EjectDisk 3.1.4 - Eject disks of all types with a single key! [*] Hearts card counter [*] HTML TagWriter 3.5 - a no-nonsense HTML editor [*] LogTimer J - Japanese Version [*] MasterFKey1.0J - Japanese Version [*] SpaceAgent 2.0 [*] StartScreenUp 1.0J - Japanese Version [*] studio system 3.1 [*] Translucent Tiles [*] virtual wine cellar 2.5 [A] Netting Two Macs? Help needed Netting two macs? Netting Two Macs? PowerCentre 132 CD not working PowerCentre 132 CD not working Problematic TCP+PPP settings Problems with iMac's CD/DVD drive USB/SCSI peripherals WP scrolling speed - thank you X'd out Zip250 Icon The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online <http://www.aol.com/> donated the main Info-Mac machine <http://www.info-mac.org/>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V17 #118" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:20:55 -0400 From: "abrody@smart.net" <abrody@smart.net> To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: (Q) Conflict Catcher reports memory conflict Dear Digest readers, When I look at the memory use of certain extensions in Conflict Catcher it highlites in bold those Extensions that use more memory in the system heap at startup than they are requesting, and Conflict Catcher recommends disabling the file if there are problems experienced with the system. Intriguingly, some of these files are Apple's own extensions: File Exchange Apple Guide Control Strip. Remarkably the control strip only has two strips currently enabled. My question is, is there anything I can do to improve the memory usage of these extensions so that there is no conflict? I know that at one point on another person's G4, the Help Guide would crash frequently. I wonder if this has to do with the same memory conflict. Both systems are running MacOS 9.0.4. Though I have a Powerbook G3/233. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net -- Come visit my mini Yahoo at. All links verified monthly: http://www.index-site.com/ ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] D-Sound Pro 3.5.1J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the D-Sound Pro package. D-SoundPRO is a professional Audio Sound Editor, Software Synthesizer, Wave Generator and MIDI/SCSI samplers network manager. Its features are: - Load/Save AIFF, SDII,.WAV and RAW mono/stereo 8/16 bits sound files - Akai, E-MU, Kurzweil, Roland, SMDI, Yamaha SCSI sample dump - MIDI SAMPLE DUMP STANDARD (also with Yamaha SY sample headers) and Roland S50, S550, S330 MIDI - Virtual Synthesizer module, to play samples from the Mac Keyboard or from MIDI (also from a sequencer running on the same Mac), including a real time AmpENV ADSR module - Import/Export sounds from 3 1/2 Roland W30, S50, S550, S330 disks - Sophisticated and undoable/redoable graphical sample edit & clipboard management with floating palettes for edit tools, loops monitoring, sample info, and Virtual Keyboard. - Full wave editor, including X-Fade looping algorithm, Time Stretching (with old/new BPM tempo input parameters), Frequency Shifting parametric algorithms by a Spectral Resynthesizer, Signal Processor for digital effects, LowPass, BandPass, HighPass and BandReject analog filter simulation with feedback, Full Parametric three ways and 7 Bands Graphic Equalizers, Resample using interpolation, and more. - Rhythm autoloop and detect BPM functions - HQ Digital Oscillator to generate new synthesized sound waves (up to 10 detunable SW oscillators at the same time!) - Internal Midi Driver and OMS 1.2 (or better) or FreeMidi 1.34 optional support - It is a FAT application - it runs native on PowerMac System requirements: System 7.1, SoundManager 3.1 and a 68020 MAC supporting 16 bit audio (68030 mac recommended for MIDI and PowerMac for full performaces). Optional: MIDI interface and synth supporting MIDI Sample Dump Standard, a MAC with sound inputs, OMS 1.2 (or better), FreeMidi 1.34 (or better). What is NEW in Version 3.5.1 - New Start/Stop Play command - Major and minor bugs fixed - Fixed an uncompatibility with SpeedDoubler causing an error creating clipboards at startup - The code is faster - New Internal Midi Driver with new parser of midi messages (OMS is now not mandatory) [Archived as /info-mac/gst/midi/d-sound-pro-351-jp.hqx; 2122 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: Jason Anderson <midnight@kagi.com> To: Subject: [*] EjectDisk 3.1.4 - Eject disks of all types with a single key! EjectDisk is an extremely useful application/extension combination. With the touch of a key you can eject any removable media from your computer, ranging from the humble floppy to the latest Jaz cartridge. You can even open the (empty) CD/DVD tray. EjectDisk is similar to the Command-Y function of the Finder in function only--unlike that command, EjectDisk can evict storage from your desktop from within any program, and you don't have to select the disk beforehand. Additionally, EjectDisk can be set to eject any CDs still in the computer when the computer is shut down. EjectDisk 3.1.4 fixes a bug that could cause EjectDisk to not recognise some disks, or even crash when attempting to eject a disk. It also adds support for the VST Firewire Zip drive.-- [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/eject-disk-314.hqx; 371 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: "Geffrey Klein, MD" <gklein@icsi.net> To: Subject: [*] Hearts card counter Hearts card counter is a filemaker pro 5.0 file. If you are like me, you have trouble remembering what cards have been played. If you are playing online, you can count the cards as they are played and keep track of who already has points.-- [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/hearts-card-counter.hqx; 15 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: Alexander Thomas <ALEXANDER.THOMAS@student.kuleuven.ac.be> To: Subject: [*] HTML TagWriter 3.5 - a no-nonsense HTML editor HTML TagWriter is a HTML editor with all the standard features, plus some special tools. The interface features floating palettes which allow easy inserting of the most common HTML tags. Tags can be edited fast and easily with the contextual pop-up menus: by ctrl-clicking any tag, you can choose the desired attributes. There is also full support for Cascading Style Sheets, with an easy-to-use Style Editor. Some of the other features are: automatic ASCII conversion, multiple file search & replace, text importer & converter, clickmap maker, local image & link-checker (single file and exhaustive), dynamic embedded files, tables- of-contents and multi-column tables, and much, much more. Full documentation is included in HTML format, together with an intro to HTML and a Tutorial. This application is $15 ShareWare and can be registered easily with the included "Register" application or online at http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/r1.cgi?ZQY& Requirements: a Mac with a 68030 processor @ minimum 16 MHz (PowerMac recommended), with 2.5 MB free RAM and 3 MB free HD space. For the latest version or 68K/PPC only formats, go to http://go.to/tagwriter [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/html-tag-writer-35.hqx; 1746 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: ChrisLi@bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] LogTimer J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese Version of the LogTimer utility. LogTimer is a System Extension which simply writes the time for System startup, Restart and Shut down into a logfile on the Desktop. To use LogTimer INIT you have to drop it on top of your system folder and it goes to the extensions folder automatically. After restart you will find a file called 'LogTime' on your desktop. This file can be opened with Simple Text to see the log times. The file is created automatically if it does not already exist. Everytime you start your system, or you shut your system down or you reboot your system an entry is added. I wrote this little Extension for one of the registered users of CopyPaste who had this idea. It is a quick hack, but it does not patch any trap and costs no CPU time except at startup and shut down. Therefore it is very unlikely to cause any problems. LogTimer is Freeware, which means it is free of charge, free for any non commercial use, free from support and free from any guarantee. LogTimer is released to the public as an advertising agent for CopyPaste, the productivity tool for your Mac, downloadable from http://www.bridge1.com. CopyPaste gives you ten clipboards instead of just one! How many times have you found yourself going back and forth copying in one application and pasting in a different application, wishing to yourself that you could copy 5-10 items at a time, then go to another application and paste each of these items. Now you can! Type the usual keyboard command for copy or cut and then any number between 1 and 9 before releasing the command key. Paste works in the same way. In addition to the normal clipboard you now have nine more. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/log-timer-j.hqx; 11 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] MasterFKey1.0J - Japanese Version This the Japanese version of the MasterFKey package. Have you ever found yourself needing more than ten FKeys at your fingertips? Have you ever forgotten which command-shift-key goes with a specific FKey? Have you ever reinstalled your System and lost all of your FKeys? Have you ever had the wish to see all of your FKeys in a list to select one by mouse? Have you ever slowed down your machine with a bunch of rarely needed extensions? Have you ever been afraid to spend memory for a system extension which does only simple things which could also been done by an FKey? All of this problems are solved by MasterFKey, the ultimate FKey utility to manage all your FKeys as easy as possible! [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/master-fkey-10-jp.hqx; 103 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: "Bernadette Ryan" <bryan@insidersoftware.com> To: Subject: [*] SpaceAgent 2.0 Insider Software's SpaceAgent speeds up your web site in seconds! SpaceAgent quickly and easily removes inefficient 'fat' from HTML, XML, and JavaScript web pages as well as unnecessary data from GIFs and JPEGs. The result is a web site that's typically 20%-30% smaller and 40%-50% faster. In addition, your web site uses less Internet resources. Run Insider's SpaceAgent and speed up your web site in seconds! Visit www.insidersoftware.com for more information. Insider Software Inc 6412 Merlin Drive, Suite 700 Carlsbad CA 92009 sales: 800-700-6340 support: 760-804-9900 eMail: spaceagent@insidersoftware.com [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/space-agent-20.hqx; 1557 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: ChrisLi@bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] StartScreenUp 1.0J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the StartScreenUp package. The StartScreenUp1.0 extension is a little INIT to reload the StartupScreen. This extension has been written to get rid of the password dialogbox of "DiskGuard" or "FileGuard" by Highware cross over the StartupScreen after the password has been entered. All MacintoshOS based computers are able to show a StartupScreen during the whole startup process. To create a StartupScreen you need a picture which must be saved in a "PICT" Resource with ID 0 (use JPEGView, Grafikconverter, PhotoShop, ClarisWorks, etc. ), and must be located in the systemfolder and named "StartupScreen". Normally the Mac will show only one StartupScreen. With StartScreenUp1.0 you can even view a second picture! StartScreenUp1.0 patches no traps and after the boot process it uninstalls itself so nothing remains in your system which could slow it down. Also no compatibility problem should occur. StartScreenUp1.0 is released free to let you know about CopyPaste, the productivity tool for your Mac, downloadable from http://www.bridge1.com. CopyPaste gives you ten clipboards instead of just one! How many times have you found yourself going back and forth copying in one application and pasting in a different application, wishing to yourself that you could copy 5-10 items at a time, then go to another application and paste each of these items. Now you can! Type the usual keyboard command for copy or cut and then any number between 1 and 9 before releasing the command key. Paste works in the same way. In addition to the normal clipboard you now have nine more. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/start-screen-up-10-jp.hqx; 9 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: Stefan Schramm <stefangs@compuserve.com> To: Subject: [*] studio system 3.1 studio system 3.1 (c) 1997-2000, Stefan Schramm rootsolutions@kagi.com Mac or Windows computer, Filemaker Pro 3.0 or later, 15" color monitor (Powermac, full page monitor recommended). the studio system helps you minimize the time spent on management and administration chores of your studio(s). the system consists of a number of related modules that are accessed from a central main menu. Ñ point-and-click interface: no knowledge of filemaker pro required. with more than 1400 field definitions, you can enter as much detail as you wish or just use the modules that you find most useful. Ñ cost-effective: solutions of this type are typically custom-programmed and can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. the studio system is shareware and registration costs no more than a roll of multitrack tape. Ñ integration: access all information from within one application. the studio system is communication and accounting software, archive, address, and inventory database, studio calculator, appointment keeper, label and track sheet printer, and more for all studio activity. Ñ support for international users: customize all printable forms with local language templates (english, german, french, and italian already included). [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/studio-system-31.hqx; 1975 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: "McKinney, Joshua" <JMckin01@bellarmine.edu> To: Subject: [*] Translucent Tiles Feel free to distribute these desktop tiles with the included document. The iMac-themed tiles were made with Starfish and Digital Darkroom. They are in the JPEG file format. To use, drag one to the appearance control panel and set to tile. Set desktop and you're ready to go. <http://www.microfrontier.com/> <http://www.redplanetsw.com/starfish/> ***By installing these files, you do so totally at your own risk.*** Though these are free, any donations will be accepted. You can send comments to me at: jmckin01@bellarmine.edu [Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/translucent-tiles.hqx; 463 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jul 2000 From: Stefan Schramm <stefangs@compuserve.com> To: Subject: [*] virtual wine cellar 2.5 virtual wine cellar 2.5 (c) 1998-2000, Stefan Schramm Mac/Windows computer, Filemaker 3.0 or later, color monitor. virtual wine cellar helps you track your inventory. It keeps you informed about stock and history, shows the current value of your wine collection, keeps track of your suppliers, and gives you the option of ordering directly from within wine cellar. Order forms can be customized for any language. Key features: Ñ intuitive, point and click interface - no knowledge of filemaker pro required. Ñ fields for wine name, country, appellation, grape, year, maturity, etc. in logical grouping. Ñ summaries for number of bottles, total cost, market value, and appreciation. Ñ automatic reminders for wines that reached/passed maturity. Ñ easy order - order directly from within virtual wine cellar. Ñ extensive finding and sorting functions. Ñ displays your own rating both numerically and graphically. Ñ import function for scanned wine labels. Ñ optimized print form. Ñ report function for further editing in your favourite word processor. Ñ extensive, context-sensitive on-line help. [Archived as /info-mac/data/vwc-25.hqx; 293 K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:21:48 -0400 From: Ken Laskey <KENNETH.J.LASKEY@saic.com> To: jemmons@primenet.com, digest@info-mac.org Subject: [A] Netting Two Macs? Piece of cake to do. First, buy a crossover Ethernet cable and connect the two computers. (You can also buy an Ethernet hub and regular cables if you want to be able to add others in.) The Appletalk control panel needs to be set to Ethernet and Appletalk on. The TCP/IP control panel needs to have an IP address and subnet mask set manually. If you are not connected to an outside network, you can use almost any IP addresses (different one for each machine) as long as the subnet mask values are the same. Turn on File Sharing and there you go. Now for added flexibility, save all the Control Panel configurations for Appletalk, TCP/IP, etc. with names other than Default and then create location sets using the Location Manager Control Panel. I have one location for my modem dialup, one for my home network, one for my office, etc. Then when I go from place to place (this is with a Powerbook), I only need to activate that location (doing it from the Control Strip is easiest) and I am up and running. This description lacks a lot of detail, but if you check under Mac OS Help, it will lead you through many of these setups. Good Luck. Ken --------- original post ------------ Hi, OK, I surrender. I just bought a new PowerBook - the first time I have owned two Macs at the same time - and I want to Ethernet it to my old (beige) desktop G3/266. But I still want my desktop to be able to use the modem to read Info-Mac. First question: What files do I need in my System Folder (Extensions/Control Panels) to make the two Macs talk with each other? How do I configure them to do the networking? Second question: How do I further configure/modify my systems to allow them to use their modems while talking with each other? Any help will be appreciated. Jim Emmons -------- end original post --------- -- Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:49:30 +0200 From: "Ramiro A. Varela" <rvarela@uvigo.es> To: <digest@info-mac.org> Subject: Help needed Hello all, I would like to know a method (as easy as possible) to command execution of a program from another mac, both linked by Appletalk/TCPIP in our local network. I need to run a simulation model which resides on a Mac G4, consuming the resources of THAT G4 (processor, memory..). Simply double clicking the application icon loads the program in the client. Thanks very much in advance -- Dr. Ramiro A. Varela Universidad de Vigo Facultad de Ciencias, Campus de Lagoas Aptdo 874 36200 Vigo (Spain) Tel. (34986)812643 Fax (34986)812556 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:38:17 -0400 From: "Marlon Deason" <marlond@earthlink.net> To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Netting two macs? The solution to networking two Macs (provided that they both have Ethernet ports) is to use a crossover cable. These can be had from most well stocked computer retail stores or can be made at home using instruction found on the Internet. The only software you will need is the optional Ethernet networking extensions which come from the Mac OS install disk. To have the modem and Ethernet active at the same time, you need to adjust some settings. The AppleTalk control panel should be set to Ethernet. Fill in the sharing info on those folders which you want to share on each machine. Fill in the users and groups control panel setting on both machines. Turn on File Sharing on both machines and you should be ready to go. The modem connecting to the internet should work fine. However, each Mac will need it's own phone line. To get both machines online with only one connection, you will need to use some sort of software to 'split' or 'share' your IP address info coming from your ISP. Apple's AirPort software can do this for you and it is free, but I don't know the trick to get it to work on Mac's which are not designed to use AirPort cards. Another software option is called IPNetRouter. Good luck ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:53:31 -0700 From: jemmons@primenet.com (Jim Emmons) To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Netting Two Macs? Hi, Wow! Thanks for all the help. I'm still sorting them all out, but my thanks to all those who sent me much needed information. Again, thanks, Jim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:07:17 +0100 From: Tony Wylie <A.Wylie@Bradford.ac.uk> To: Marlon Deason <marlond@earthlink.net> Subject: PowerCentre 132 CD not working I suspect you are right, I went back to the oldest cd driver I could find and the external; cd now works, but only if I restart with (but not boot from) a cd that contains a system in the tray. I can then mount any cd in the external drive. The internal cd is still in a coma. I will lwt you know if this works or not, cheers. Tony On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:05:54 -0400 Marlon Deason <marlond@earthlink.net> wrote: > Tony-- > > It's a long shot, but I think I may know the cause of your problem. Quite a > while back Apple decided to stick it to the clone manufacturers and stop > supporting non-Apple branded CD-ROM drives. How they did this was basically > disable all of the brands of drives from their extension 'Apple CD/DVD > drive' that were not used as OEM Apple parts. > > In addition to being a dumb move, this is also terribly easy to reverse > using ResEdit. Instructions can be found here: > > http://www.resexcellence.com//12-21-98.shtml > > Other options are trying different driver software for your CD-ROM drive. > Options include; Adaptec's Toast, CD SpeedTools, and CD ToolKit. > > Good Luck > > -- Marlon > marlond@earthlink.net > > > > > I thought it was just me! I have a PowerCentre 132 and my cd drive stopped > > working some months ago. > > > > <snip> > > > > It's really annoying and I can't think my way out of this one. I am going to > > buy a G4 soon, but I would like to conquer this problem jsut so it doesn't > > beat me. ---------------------- Tony Wylie A.Wylie@bradford.ac.uk Pager 04325 235448 ---------------------- Scrapie Magazine University of Bradford Union Student Magazine editor@scrapie.co.uk www.scrapie.co.uk Tel:01274 233285 Fax:01274 235530 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:05:54 -0400 From: "Marlon Deason" <marlond@earthlink.net> To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: PowerCentre 132 CD not working Tony-- It's a long shot, but I think I may know the cause of your problem. Quite a while back Apple decided to stick it to the clone manufacturers and stop supporting non-Apple branded CD-ROM drives. How they did this was basically disable all of the brands of drives from their extension 'Apple CD/DVD drive' that were not used as OEM Apple parts. In addition to being a dumb move, this is also terribly easy to reverse using ResEdit. Instructions can be found here: http://www.resexcellence.com//12-21-98.shtml Other options are trying different driver software for your CD-ROM drive. Options include; Adaptec's Toast, CD SpeedTools, and CD ToolKit. Good Luck -- Marlon marlond@earthlink.net > I thought it was just me! I have a PowerCentre 132 and my cd drive stopped > working some months ago. > > <snip> > > It's really annoying and I can't think my way out of this one. I am going to > buy a G4 soon, but I would like to conquer this problem jsut so it doesn't > beat me. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:34:55 -0400 From: Allan Hunter <ahunter3@earthlink.net> To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Problematic TCP+PPP settings I have a PowerBook (Wall Street) running 8.6 and I connect to the internet differently depending on where I am: Ethernet (DHCP) at work, DSL (Ethernet with static IP) at home, PPP various other places. I therefore have several different TCP configurations which I change as circumstance dictate using Command-K. Recently, and to my annoyance, PPP quit working. It dials, it connects, it reports networking protocols as being active, but any application requiring a working TCP connection (Eudora, Netscape, etc) reports DNS failure or other inability to make a connection, and complains that the current TCP is not set up properly. (Yes, the Remote Access Control Panel is set up to insist on PPP and not ARAP). I have separate partitions on the hard drive which are also bootable, and if I boot from one of the others I can connect via modem and get my email, but of course I don't like changing my entire OS environment so radically and I shouldn't have to. I've trashed the TCP Preferences and Remote Access Connections file and re-entered all the configurations and got it working ONCE* and have also simply copied the TCP Prefs file from the other bootable partition's System Folder's Preferences folder but the problem persists. *I should mention that the problem intermittently goes away; on two occasions I was all prepared to sit down for an evening of trouble-shooting, opened a connection over modem, and voila, I'm online and silly enough to imagine that the problem had simply gone away of its own accord. Far more often, though, I have to change startup disks and reboot to get a PPP connection over modem. The fact that I am able to do that, always WITHOUT difficulty once rebooted, seems to eliminate things like "maybe your ISP was having a bad day" or "perhaps your telephone wires are in really bad shape". Meanwhile, the fact that occasionally it just works normally from my primary startup hard disk means that I don't know if the one success I had with trashing and re-entering my settings was caused by my doing so or just coincidental. A custom reinstall (specifying "networking") of the OS did not seem to help either, in addition to which I've manually trashed TCP, Remote Access, and OT Extensions and Control Panels and copied files of the same name from the other System Folder which didn't do the trick either. Yes, I zapped the bloody PRAM too. Clues? -- Allan Hunter <ahunter3@earthlink.net> <http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:04:27 +0200 From: Markus Sitek <markus@eurobid.com> To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Problems with iMac's CD/DVD drive Dear digest readers, I have two questions concerning the CD-drive of my new iMac (DV 400): 1. Is it normal that the disc is not ejected before a restart or after closing the computer, like it used to be with older models? 2. Sometimes the iMac takes quite a long time to recognize an audioCD, sometimes it even does not recognize a CD, or it jumps or freezes while playing an audioCD. Are these cases normal for an iMac or is it a case for the Mac guarantee? Thanks for your help Markus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 06:27:44 -0400 From: Chazzz <macman@kyol.net> To: <digest@info-mac.org> Subject: USB/SCSI peripherals If one hooks a USB to SCSI connector to run "old" peripherals" with a newer Mac, can you daisy chain SCSI devices using that set up? Thanks -- Charles Cusumano <macman@kyol.net> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:50:52 +1200 From: "Markus Winter" <m.winter@auckland.ac.nz> To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: WP scrolling speed - thank you Hi all, thanks to all who replied (far to many to mention) - you made our secretaries happy (and they now think I'm a hero ;-) - thanks!). Markus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:08:09 +0200 From: hajeven@knoware.nl (HJ vd Ven) To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: X'd out Zip250 Icon Subject: X'd out Zip250 Icon In Info-Mac Digest V17 #114, 7/23/00, Peter Minter wrote: > Using USB Iomega 250 on an iMac Graphite, the start-up icon is > marked with a red cross during extension start-up. The drive, > however, is working as normal and is recognised as connected on > systm profile. Then, in Info-Mac Digest V17 #115, 7/24/00, Ken Laskey responded: > You have another extension that is acting as a device driver and > the Iomega driver is deferring to that. Likely, you have an > external hard drive or some such that has its own driver and > that is where the conflict occurs. I expect the Iomega device > will work fine under most circumstances but may act up in > others. For example, I have an Annubis driver and my Zip won't > recognize PC formatted disks unless I reboot without the Annubis > driver active. My experience: > On my Performa-6205 (System 7.5.3), I find the same action Peter >does. But I discovered that the Zip-250 Icon is X'd out on >startup ONLY with a disk in that drive at startup. With the drive >empty, the Icon appears normally. Either way, I have no problems >accessing my Zip-250. It's in the manual: With a Zip in the drive starting up, is the most simple way to load the driver (from the zip). For me it's the only way to get it working, an other method leads to freezes ;>(( The normal way worked flawlessly on my 4400/200/zip100, but not on my G4/400/zip250 intern. The version of the iomega driver is the latest 6.0.7 mvg, HJ van de Ven -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************