On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 11:40 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
> A NuBus IDE card would be nice, but that would
> require driver software and/or an onboard ROM to
> support it. (But hey, why not? Someone made an
> IDE interface that plugged between a Z80 CPU and
> its motherboard!)
There is a way. ACARD do a SCSIDE Bridge Adapter that adapts ATAPI
CD/CD-RW drives to SCSI. It's not all that expensive and, provided you
flash it to the Mac firmware, it is totally transparent to the system.
It comes with everything necessary to attach it to a Mac and will
comfortably fti on the back of a CD drive. It's a little long for most
hard disk bays but hey. I am currently using one behind the 40GB IDE
Drive I mentioned earlier. Not only is it cheaper (although not
per-drive) than a NuBus adapter, it's actually available here and now.
If you are luck enough to have a NuBus Jackhammer card you can get an
UltraWide version that works at 20MB/s.
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