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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / July 2006g3/OS9 usb problem
Got a Wallstreet running 9.2.2, and an Adaptec USB adapter card, which seems to work OK, except... I have a MPIO mp3 player which my g4/10.3.9 cube recognizes and mounts just fine as a storage device, and thought it would be handy for transferring files back and forth with my Powerbook. No luck. According to the system profiler, the MPIO is there, all right, but it doesn't mount on the desktop, so I can't access it. I thought it might be a quirk of the adapter, but I plugged the player into a friend's Bronze G3 (on-board USB), also with 9.2.2, and got the same result. Can't seem to find any specific drivers... Any other ideas? Am I going to have the same problem with any USB flash drive? TIA Dan Dan and folks, > Got a Wallstreet running 9.2.2, and an Adaptec USB adapter card, which > seems to work OK, except... I have the same machine with a Belkin USB Busport Mobile (F5U022). It runs several makers' flash drives. I had some trouble getting started. Took the Wallstreet to the local Mac Store, where one tech actually knew OS 9.2. He ran all the usual diagnostics; pronounced the machine in perfect health; and re-inserted the card. Worked fine and has in the eight months since. I have mouse, printer, power cord plugged in. In reattaching peripherals, I found that attaching a SCSI Zip drive was the killer. This is no problem since the flash drives replace the function of the (7 year old) Zip drive. Mac Store tech also said, "never use 'processor cycling.'" JohnB, Seattle > Got a Wallstreet running 9.2.2, and an Adaptec USB adapter card, which > seems to work OK, except... [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Am I going to have the same problem with any USB flash drive? Dan- I have a Hi-Val dual USB card for my Wallstreet. I think it is the chipset used in the card that determines whether additional drivers are required, unrelated to the USB side. If your Adaptec works for other USB applications, then it is probably OK. The problem may be on the USB side. I had the same problem with both the Wallstreet and my Beige G3 MiniTower. The original USB Extensions were obtained from an Apple USB Developer Kit. When Apple upgraded the OS later, newer USB Extensions did not work with some devices that had worked before. The solution was to find older versions of the USB Extensions. I can't find my notes, but I believe this lineup works: USB Device Extension Version 1.5.8 USB Mass Storage Support Version 2.0.9 USB Printer Sharing Extension Version 1.0.2 USB Software Locator Version 1.5.8 USBAppleMonitorModule Version 2.2 USBSerial Version 1.0 There is probably only one or two that are involved with the problem, but I don't know which they are! Fred |
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