Hi Larry;
Good information, EXCEPT --
I have a Beige that died, with OSX on the IDE drive.
I want a PCI -> IDE card to go into another machine to be able to get at the files on the IDE drive. Simple thought right?
Looking for a PCI/IDE card shows all sorts of "ATA" cards, but that's NOT the same as IDE --- hence the problem. The ATA cabling, and IDE cables just don't mesh.
Chuck D.
Larry le Mac wrote:
From: "Wm. Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For those of us new to this list, please speak english.(o:)! What is an ATA100-PCI card and what is an MDD ?
Hmm, if you don't know what ATA-PCI card or MDD is you probably don't know the answer, but of course you should know what the terms mean! :o)
ATA is the interface on IDE harddisks, ATA100 and 133 are the faster modern standards, older Macs had ATA66, and even 33 (slow!).
PCI is (obviously?) the card interface on the motherboard where one plugs the ATA card in.
The ATA card is a PCI card that will allow a further 4 IDE disks to be connected to the Mac, two buses with one master and one slave drive on each.
MDD stands for Mirror Drive Doors, the last of the G4 PowerMacs before the G5 was released. This Mac was the first to have three IDE buses, i.e. 6 devices, 4 for harddrives, thus my question, 4 + 4 harddrives in one Mac is quite a bit...
:o)
Larry
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