Adding USB2 to G4 digital audio

Hi,
I purchased and installed an Adaptec USB2connect Adapter (OHCI compliant) in my G4 533 Digital Audio (running 10.4.11, 1.25 GB RAM). I'm not sure it's working. Under "About this mac," it is showing up as usb in slot 3. To this I was planning to attach a 500 GB Free Agent Seagate external hard drive.

Without anything working to date, the G4 has sleep issues. If I put it to sleep, I can't wake it up without pulling the plug. In the reading I have done, this seems to be an issue with G4s. Is there any way to overcome this, short of pulling the PCI card. Could this drive work connected thru firewire slot?

Any help would be appreciated. If I could get everything running and do a full backup on the external, I would be willing to pull out the PCI card and reinsert when I need to do additional backup, but I was hoping to avoid that.

Personally, I'm not a technically savvy person. I don't have any fear of installing ram, processor, additional hard drive, pci cards, etc. but that is about as far as I can go without guidance.

Jackie

It should be working, just plug in any drive, even a thumb drive to test it out.

My G4 has a generic USB 2 card that just worked when I put it in

As for the sleep issue, have you tried turning off sleep in the energy saver preferences

seems to be working!

I must not have had something configured right. It seems to be waking up okay now. Let's just hope it keeps it up! Thanks for the help.

Jackie

Well, when left alone for a longer period of time, I had to again revert to pulling the plug. So I'm right back where I started. The computer just REFUSES to wake up. Any suggestions?

Jackie

The sleep problem is one you strike with USB PCI cards. Sonnet seem to make the best of a poor lot. Why not get an external Firewire drive? Will be faster to back up and with your operating system cloned, will also be bootable. USB will never boot a DA.


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/782844?threadID=782844

Unfortunately, I already bought the Seagate USB2 drive......grrrrrrrr.
Jackie