At 10:12 PM 2/6/2003 -0800, you wrote: >OK. I Found It! >The card (ACard AHard 66) only supports a limited number of drives. >None of the drives I tried were supported. >I went to their web site (should have done that first!) >Got the list of supported drives. >Found one of mine that was on the list. >It worked.
FWIW I ran into the same problem, same ACARD AHARD PCI-66 card with a WD Caviar 20GB 7200RPM drive I bought used. I never thought to check the compatiblity list but suspect that it is not on it. Oddly, at one point early on in my testing of various configurations and jumper settings Drive Setup did find the drive, with internal CD-ROM disconnected and internal IDE hdd connected. Once I had re-partitioned the drive, which I probably did on the internal IDE bus, I could never see it on the PCI controller. OWC tech support suggested that the problem was the ATA-100 hdd and the ATA-66 controller, e.g., the controller was not fast enough to see the drive, which contradicts statements of forward and backward compatibility that I read elsewhere. I ended up exchanging for a SIIG Ultra ATA-133 card, rather than get another drive. It looked like the same problem was happening with the SIIG until, as I recall, I again disconnected the CD-ROM until the hdd was detected (as a SCSI drive), partitioned and initialized. All is fine now. I have no means of testing the performance of the drive on the SIIG, but the drive is quiet and operations generally appear to be reasonably quick and competent on the otherwise stock G3/233MHz/192GB. -Eric Hopkins >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (G-List) > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (G-List) > >Subject: Re: ACard ATA 66 > >Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 00:04:34 EST > > > >In a message dated 2/6/03 8:52:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > ><< But the system doesn't see the physical HD, either in System Profiler >> > > > >Then the drive(s) and/or the card is/are bad. > > > > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
