Hi,
I have a PowerPC G4 Mac mini 1.42Ghz in use as a file server, amongst other things. I have a 500GB firewire drive attached. It's not the most powerful machine but it does fine.
The only thing that's annoying me is whilst the rest of my networked machines are Gigabit (Quicksilver G4, Windows laptop, NAS Drive), the Mac Mini is only 100MB ethernet, and when moving multi-GB files which I do a lot, it's annoying.
I know about TCP/IP-over-Firewire but that only works to one machine, and you need a separate firewire card to that used for connecting other devices (e.g. hard drives), so that's not really an option for me.
I've seen there's some USB 2.0 to Gigabit adapters on the market with varying degrees of Mac support, but often driver problems too.
Does anyone have a viable solution?
Thanks,
Ben
I have a PowerPC G4 Mac mini 1.42Ghz in use as a file server, amongst other things. I have a 500GB firewire drive attached. It's not the most powerful machine but it does fine.
The only thing that's annoying me is whilst the rest of my networked machines are Gigabit (Quicksilver G4, Windows laptop, NAS Drive), the Mac Mini is only 100MB ethernet, and when moving multi-GB files which I do a lot, it's annoying.
I know about TCP/IP-over-Firewire but that only works to one machine, and you need a separate firewire card to that used for connecting other devices (e.g. hard drives), so that's not really an option for me.
I've seen there's some USB 2.0 to Gigabit adapters on the market with varying degrees of Mac support, but often driver problems too.
Does anyone have a viable solution?
Thanks,
Ben