problems with osX to 8.5 downgrade B/W g3?

[maha]

Hi all,
I'm curious if there is a problem reformating and loading os 8.5 on a blue and white g3 that already has osX installed on it?

I have a piece of equipment that is only supported in 8.5.

Thanks!

 

[yippy]

If you reformat with the 8.5 disks you should be fine.

 

[sjpetry]

Just curious, what piece of equipment is it?

 

[maha]

sorry, I'm not too technical about os updating. I just want to make sure that the os or a firmware update (that would probably have needed installation prior to osX) wouldn't mess up going back to os 8.5? or if such a thing could even happen.

It's a drum scanner made by Screen who no longer supports software development for this model. I've been using a beige g3 which works fine, but file transfers are extremely slow as I think it's only a built in 10 base T network connection.

Unless anyone knows of a card for the beige g3? I posted that question a while ago and received no answer....

anyways thanks for the advice!

cheers

 

[Hemingray]

Does it absolutely have to be 8.5 or can you run 8.6? If so, this would probably work for you:

http://www.smalldog.com/product/39725

 

[maha]

Does it absolutely have to be 8.5 or can you run 8.6? If so, this would probably work for you:

http://www.smalldog.com/product/39725

I'm not 100% sure. When I first set up the system - about 1.5 years ago, I believe I tried 8.6 and if I remember right, the reason why 8.6 didn't work that great was a color sync problem?

Right now I have color sync 2.5.1 in os 8.5.

and I don't have a machine with 8.6 on it to see again what the difference was....

 

[maha]

oh and thanks for the link!