>SCSI backplanes are plentiful... and expensive. Logistically, you will have
>to measure how much room you have in your Mac. There are some that are made
>to fit in 5 1/4" bays, there is one on www.rackmountpro.com that fits 5 3
>1/2" SCA drives in 3 5 1/4" bays.
>
>I think this one looks reasonable:
><http://www.rackmountpro.com/productpage.cfm?prodid=956>
I can't get any kind of display at this site - the links are there
and it loads but nothing is displayed......mind you - I doubt there is
room in a 8500...
>I double-checked, and I was mistaken; the card I flashed is a 2940UW, not an
>U2W. Sorry about the confusion.
I believe the 2940UW can be more reliably flashed for mac than the
U2W - as Jeff W pointed out to me on the Supermac list...
>>The 2940U2W is an LVD card. The 2940UW is a Single Ended SCSI card
>>with half the theoretical throughput. My experience is that the
>>2940UW is rock solid in the S900/J700 but that the 2940U2W is quirky.
I may try both cards in the 8500 and the S900 as my drives will cope
with the performance of either though I would like to extract the PC
firmware from the UW before I attempt the change - so at least I can
restore it and sell it again if it proves 'unreliable'....
Pete
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