On Feb 24, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Will_i_am wrote:
> Will a SCSI-2 device such as a Teac CD-RW external drive work on a > Beige G3 MiniTower running OS 9.2.2? I can't seem to find any > information on just what SCSI this machine supports. Is it involved > and expensive to retrofit this machine with SCSI-2? I'm assuming this > G3 probably has only SCSI-1 capability? The Beige G3 (all models) has a single 5 MB/sec SCSI bus. Previous models had a 10 MB/sec internal and a 5 MB/sec external SCSI buses. With the proper adapters, SCSI-2 devices, such as external SCSI CD- ROMs, can be converted to the Mac, which generally employ a specialized interpretation of the SCSI standard, and which employs a 25-pin D-Subminiature connector. SCSI-2 generally employs a miniature 50-pin connector for byte-wide transfers (fast, but not wide SCSI), and a 68-pin connector for double-byte-transfers (wide and fast SCSI). These are 0.050" pitch. As internal devices, these drives have a 50-pin 0.100" pitch connector. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
