In a message dated 3/4/03 5:07:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Actually, with ALL of Sonnet's ATA cards from the ATA/66 up, the first time you hook an IDE drive to it, you have to FORMAT it ... the card will know it is there but it usually wont mount an exsisting IDE unless the drive was formatted on the Sonnet card in the first place ... a word of warning ... >>
This is true of *every* card UATA/33 (ProMax TurboMax was the first), and above. *All* depend upon a loophole in SCSI Manager 4.3 which allow a number of SCSI cards to be dynamically added at boot time, and to retain unique SCSI bus IDs (before, all were "merged" into SCSI Bus 0). *All* require re-initializing using Drive Setup, but, AFAIK, *none* require re-formatting (as in a low-level format). A "quick" initialization is all that is required. The initialization method is such that you can perform the initialization on, say, a Sonnet card, and then move that drive to an ACARD or VST card, and vice versa, and they will all be compatible with each other. To move a drive so initialized back to a native EIDE/UATA bus, you must go through the initialization process all over again. -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
