Shaun Krislock on 1/16/01 1:51 PM wrote:
> Hi everyone! I have a question for you guys regarding the Asante SCSI -
> Ethernet adapters. I got this from Asante's website:
>
> **********
> The Micro EN/SC is the smallest, dark gray in color (matches color of
> Powerbook), and was designed to work with Powerbooks. It will not work with
> desktop Macs, Quadra, Centris, IIfx, or PowerMacs. It will work with the
> Powerbook 5xx series.
> **********
>
> It says there that it will not work with Powermacs, but I recall 2 listers
> saying that they were using it with their 2300c's! So, who's right? I read
> someplace that the reason these things aren't supposed to work with the
> 68040 and above chips are because their SCSI data flow rate is too fast for
> the EN/SC devices to work properly. Anybody know about this??
>
> Shaun in Vancouver.
As I understand it, they're not supposed to work with PowerMacs. But, it
seems there is always an exception to the rule. I used one with my Duo2300c
and it always functioned perfectly. I had it connected via the SCSI port on
a MiniDock. More often than not I hear reports from others that it works
with their 2300 also. I don't know why, but it usually works.
However, when I sold my 2300 and bought a PB1400, I tried using the Asante
adapter with it. No such luck. It would consistently lock the machine up. I
even installed an extension to slow down the SCSI but it didn't help. So
instead I bought a GV PCMCIA card for modem and ethernet.
Note also that the info you reference may have been written prior to the
construction of a PowerPC PowerBook. As Eric points out, everything they
make reference to are desktop machines.
-makmac
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