All great questions... > I have one of the Beige G3 systems with the SCSI pci card which I've > converted to the standard ATTO ExpressPCI PSC cards. I'm still kinda > confused by all the flavors of SCSI. As I understand it, this card is > an ultra wide card with a 68 pin connector. Is this correct? Assuming > so, will any 68 pin SCSI drive work with this? I assume that the drive > transfer speed will ratchet down to the speed of the card. Am I > correct about this? The ribbon cable from the card to the drive has a > couple of other connectors, can I just add a drive and use one of the > open connectors? What about termination. Is that not necessary with > the 68 pin setup?
...and I can only be of a little help. But perhaps someone can add my perspective to the correct answers. Any 68 pin SCSI drive will work on the chain. I've been told that the speed of the SCSI bus goes down to the slowest drive on the bus. So if you put a 7x00 speed SCSI drive along with a 10,000 rpm SCSI drive, the faster drive will slow down to the 7x00 rpm drive. Is this correct? I just got a B&W that had one SCSI drive on its fast SCSI chain. I just added another to it. The only thing I needed to do was change the jumper on the drive so it wasn't the same as the other. The chain appears to be terminated - or else the drive existing on the setup was already terminated. I believe termination is more important on fast SCSI than it was on the older systems - perhaps because of the IDE bus on modern Macs. Someone could clarify this. That'd be nice. I knew that the drive I put in was slower than my fastest and largest SCSI drive I bought for an older Mac. And I suspected that the one that came with the B&W was slower, too. So I put in ANOTHER SCSI card, and placed the faster&bigger drive on a separate chain. Soon, nearly everything will run off that. The other drives will be for backup. I now have three hard drives running nicely in OS X, and more space than I've ever had before. It was all easy on the B&W. When I tried to monkey around with a beige G3 server I got six months ago, trying to do pretty much the same thing, I proceeded to ruin the cable, putting it in and out of the various holes. That was a bummer. t -- Signwave Finder Mail 0.5a - http://www.signwave.co.uk/ -- 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/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
