Some of what I know . . . I'm aware of five IDE-to-SCSI adapters, ACARD, ADTX, Addonics, Artmix and Century. Of those, I have a pair each of the ADTX and Century adapters.
The ACARD adapter is no longer being made according to the ACARD engineer with whom I spoke last week at MacWorld/CreativePro NY. I'd never heard of an ACARD 2.5" adapter until last weeek, but this engineer told me they did indeed make such an animal at one point. <http://www.acard.com/eng/> ADTX may still make their adapter, at least it is still listed on their website. This was the unit Apple sold attached to a 1GB drive for use in scsi PBs. The same drive/adapter combo was sold by aftermarket vendors (eg: MicroTech) for PowerBooks, SparcBooks, etc. Apparently IBM owns (owned?) a piece of ADTX. <http://www.adtx.com/us/> <http://www.adtx.com/us/conv-SCSI-IDE.html> There's more than one version of ADTX adapter: <http://mickey.lucifier.net/adtx/> The Addonics item linked below is for an adapter for 3.5" HDs, I don't know if they make anything for 2.5". I don't know anything else about this outfit. <http://www.addonics.com/products/hub_adapter_converter/ide_scsi.asp> Artmix looks almost like some kind of Mac 'club' or co-operative, here's a product page link: <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.artmix.com%2Fj_sales.html> and some more info about the Artmix adapter: <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lin kclub.or.jp%2F%7Ehero%2FOldies%2FPeripherals%2F25SCSI_IDE.html&lp=ja_en&tt= url> Century's is currently available, one of mine is in a PPC540C/166 attached to an IBM 30 gigger: <http://online.century.co.jp/BittradeTest/e_shop/chb25int.html> With the Apple 1GB+ADTX PB SCSI drive, you can replace the drive with any 12.5mm or thinner IDE drive. However my ADTX adapters can recognize only a max of ~8GB, where the Century adapters have a 32GB limit. Also, the ADTX adapters I have are somewhat slow, the Century is faster (ADTX = ~400K/s vs. Century = ~1.1MB/S) in a PB 500. Of course, none of any of these adapters can make anywhere near complete use of modern HD speed as a SCSI PowerBook's scsi bus is the bottleneck. The Century adapter is not cheap at ~$90, the Artmix item costs less and is probably the fastest, but I don't know if they will ship to the US. An ADTX adapter (most likely still attached to its original HD) can be had on eBay for $20 to $100 depending on the phase of the moon, the current Dow index level . . . etc. :-) Another maker may have entered the market, I hope to examine a sample soon. I'll report back when I'm able. hth, Dan K ................................. http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 ................................. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
