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On Wednesday 19 November 2003 02:12, Marshal Newrock wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Alan wrote:
> > Based on what I have heard, mac and pc video cards aren't interchangable
> > because the bios is mac or pc :(   You have to flash the bios somehow.
> > I'm sure there are tools out there, but like the other poster said, it's
> > dangerous (or so I heard).
> >
> > Gotta love hardware huh? :)  I was looking at buying a mac and figured I
> > could just throw my older nvidia card in it to upgrade, but nooooo.....
> > </rant>
>
> It probably has to do with the different architectures.  Big/little
> endian, word alignments, and other addressing things.  I believe PCI is
> only a physical spec, and has nothing to do with the data being carried
> over it.

That's quite odd, because I bought a second hand/returned ultra160 scsi card 
from Insight over 2 years ago. It had been returned cos it was the mac 
version, yet has worked faultlessly in my athlon fileserver.

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Mike Williams
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