In a message dated 11/10/02 11:06:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> [ snip ]
... I put one socket on the hacked Promise card. And I inserted the flash memory chips in their own sockets and then plugged socket into socket ... [ snip ] >> To which I would add: consider using a 3M (formerly Textool) ZIF. Aries, and others, make ZIFs, too. << P.S. Peter, in one of your posts you mentioned that the Mac configuration is a RAID configuration. How does the card provide RAID support? I thought that was all done through software using SoftRAID, not as a hardware RAID. If there's a way to get it to do hardware RAID, I'd love to know about it. >> IIRC, the Mac card is stuffed as a RAID card (this takes one resistor change) just because SoftRAID came bundled with the card. The Mac card is still a software RAID card. My interpretation of the two inout/output pins used by the PDC20262 is: PC/*PC (where *PC is synonymous with Mac) and RAID/*RAID. The combination *PC and *RAID has not been used in any product I am familiar with. >> P.P.S. The fact that the VST card was bundled with a full upgradeable copy of SoftRAID and was well under $100 for a long time made it a great buy back when. >> Yes, indeed, and at a "street price" of about $79, give-or-take. Of course, by the time OWC got hold of the few remaining VST cards, they were only $49 and change, and they didn't come with SoftRAID. Sonnet recently "offed" its stock of its UATA/66 cards for the same price as OWC charged for its VST card, but the Sonnet offering was a full retail package, not a bare card. Final remarks ... Jeff's comments about onesies and twosies is an important one. Unless you are prepared to do these cards in batches of, say, five as a minimum, it just isn't worth it. It is difficult work, most of which is under a binocular microscope, at best, or under an illuminated magnifier (Luxor, e.g.), at worst. The required manual skills ... in order to do an acceptable job ... is high. Brute force simply will not work here. Since you have two multipin components to remove (these being pin-through-hole) and a hand-full of discrete components to remove, and a hand-full-and-a-half of discrete components to add or replace (I never reuse discretes, hence the replacements), it just isn't worth it for a one-off. Peter. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
