Good evening All, I have a few questions, so I'll try to keep this short. I have a local Gigabit network with all my computers connected. The 6500 is able to connect through Appletalk to my LC 475 as the both have ethernet cards in them. My SE/30 has a BlueSCSI v2 along with WiFi and can connect to the Internet without issue. Both the LC 475 and the SE/30 are running 7.5.3 Rev 2 and the 6500 is on OS 8. In the Appletalk and TCP/IP control panels for the LC and and 6500, the network is identified as 'Ethernet' and in the SE, it says 'Alternate Ethernet". I think, even though everyone is on the same physical network with 192.168.1.XXX IP address range, the SE doesn't see the LC and 6500 and the 6500 and LC doesn't show up in the SE, but the LC and 6500 do connect. So, is the 'Alternate Ethernet' a part of the BlueSCSI Dynaport network drivers which is isolating the SE from the other local computers, and how do I fix it? Do I need to re-install the SE network card? I hope not since I have a Booster 2.0 plugged into the PDS slot.
My next question is about the 6500. To keep this short, I blew up the partitions on the original IDE drive while trying to see if the original 9.1 OS has a driver to connect to my PCI USB 2.0 card. Instead the data is now inaccessible and I need an 8.0 system to fix it according to what the bootable CD-ROM indicates. I've only had this Power Mac a few weeks so, as a precaution, I purchased a 6500 restore CD-ROM and that's what got me going. But I have no other functional PowerMacs to fix the original drive, so I cobbled together an IDE to CF card and a CF to SD card adapters to build a SSD of 128 GBs. I'm restored to that but if I add an IDE extender cable (one male and two female 40-pin connectors) then will the Mac and OS recognize two physical IDE drives (master and slave) and mount the broken drive as a slave for me to try and fix it?
I do have more questions, but I'll ask later after I'm through this minor crisis.
Thank you for your time and patience,
Gerry
My next question is about the 6500. To keep this short, I blew up the partitions on the original IDE drive while trying to see if the original 9.1 OS has a driver to connect to my PCI USB 2.0 card. Instead the data is now inaccessible and I need an 8.0 system to fix it according to what the bootable CD-ROM indicates. I've only had this Power Mac a few weeks so, as a precaution, I purchased a 6500 restore CD-ROM and that's what got me going. But I have no other functional PowerMacs to fix the original drive, so I cobbled together an IDE to CF card and a CF to SD card adapters to build a SSD of 128 GBs. I'm restored to that but if I add an IDE extender cable (one male and two female 40-pin connectors) then will the Mac and OS recognize two physical IDE drives (master and slave) and mount the broken drive as a slave for me to try and fix it?
I do have more questions, but I'll ask later after I'm through this minor crisis.
Thank you for your time and patience,
Gerry