> I checked Acards' website yesterday for these very cards. They wanted > $89 for an PCI-ATA adapter.
That is not significantly different from their price nearly 15 years ago. Over the years, one could get a 68-pin UW-SCSI adapter card (fits on the back of an ATA drive, any size and capacity, although these were designed for 1" high drives. I used mine on 500 GB drives. ACARD also made 50-pin SCSI versions, and a special version which was designed for ATA optical drives and made it look like SCSI optical drives. A downside of an ACARD adapter is it requires power, and the power connector is a 4-pin floppy type. The easiest way to power these and the attached drive is to buy a "Y" cable intended for powering a pair of floppies and then change one of the miniature Japan Molex floppy connectors for a U.S. Molex or U.S. AMP hard drive connector. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
