At 10:57 AM -0700 6/23/2012, Jonas Lopez wrote:
I have old G3 B&W with SCSI marked drive that is bad. I called OWC
for replacement and was told SCSI IS THE SAME AS ULTRA ATA DRIVE. I
think this is wrong.
SCSI and ATA/IDE are two different bus technologies. They are NOT compatible.
The only thing they have in common is that they're both parallel
buses. Then, in the newest revisions of each, they both become
serial buses - Firewire (a form of SCSI-3) and SATA. But they are
still different technologies and still incompatible.
As to the SCSI drive being in a Smurf... Apple offered a PCI-based
SCSI card as an option. I believe thay also offered it on the G4's
too. Still has IDE on the motherboard tho.
fwiw,
- Dan.
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