(I don't think I sent this earlier, but if I did, sorry...) On Sunday 15 May 2005 0315, somebody named Rogério Brito inscribed this message: ... > Does your card allow you to boot from an IDE device? Is it well > supported under Linux and MacOS X? Unfortunately, finding IDE cards is > not easy here where I live (in Brazil).
No, Yes, No, and bummer. :^) Unfortunately you can't boot from the IDE card because it's not a Mac card. I have an old/small/slow SCSI drive that boots a minimal MacOS 8.6 system with BootX. The Promise cards based on the PCD202xx chipset are well supported under Linux. (IIRC, mine is a 20268.) I'm not sure about support under OS X. Nothing turned up in a quick Google search, but I also vaguely recall hearing something a while ago about Jaguar or Panther having native support for a bunch of generic cards. It could also be quite interesting getting OS X to run on a 9500, even with a the upgrades. OS X generally wants a minimum of 256MB these days, halfway decent graphics hardware (which none of the Beige Macs had :) ), and even some of the older NewWorld machines have trouble keeping up. NRH -- This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. - Dorothy Parker
