[geeks] Anyone know of good sources of 5V DIMMs?

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 10:05:52AM -0400, nate at portents.com wrote:
> I've been investigating USB PCI cards actually, and I found out that VIA
> actually makes drivers for their USB 2.0 cards for OS X.  I haven't tried
> them yet, but you can get them from here, and I wouldn't be surprised if
> they fix the USB storage device issues you're talking about:
> 
> http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=23&CatID=2470&SubCatID=122
> 
> Description says it's for OS X 10.2-10.4, for VT6202 and VT6212 chipset
> cards.

It hung my 10.4 system when I installed it. I had to reinstall MacOS to
get it to boot. A driver is incorporated in 10.4. anyway. It does not
support the mode that disk drives use. Read the fine print. :-(

That's normal for VIA, they often exaggerate the capability of their
chips and drivers. 

Geoff.
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