It has OS9 drivers, I had no trouble using the disk via USB and OS9, although quite slow.
I managed to get the disk on the desktop (OS 9). I d/l the latest Maxtor FW extension (v. 2.01f) and turned off the other Maxtor extensions.
The drive now mounts, however the interface is sluggish. It takes literally hours for the OS to update the folder size in the window. I have not tested large file xfers, but emptying the trash from this disk of about 50mb has been going on for the last 20mins (300,000 files). So clearly it is not operating properly via the FW card. It is running about the same speed as when I accessed it through USB on OS 9.
My goal is to have it permanently attached to the desktop and use it as a network backup drive to avoid hooking it up to other computers and allow access to 3 other computers.
Is it possible, even though fully recognized, that the large 200G size is a problem with OS9 on the Beige G3?
Currently using or accessing the drive makes the entire system and other apps a bit sluggish, it is clearly hogging CPU resources of some kind. An example is how the mouse staggers/stutters accross the screen.
joe
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