Hi Scott; The standard SCCI card was Ultra Narrow, 20 meg rating. You can use any SCCI drive, slowed rated drives may slow the interface speeds to the speed of the slower drive. Faster drives will not run faster that the Ultra Narrow speed. Pin converters for almost any any pin number to any pin number are available in the $10-$20 range.
I recently added a 34 meg 10k rpm 40 80 pin drive and it's sustained read write speed drive was actually lower that the Ultra Narrow 7200 rpm drive it exists with. I put a faster smart card [ they run each device at there maximum speed ] in and now the 10k drive is twice as fast and 7200 drive also runs at maximum speed Cheers, Chester Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/26/01 12:30 PM, "(Power Computing List)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello fellow Powerusers! > > My name is Scott Charles and I'm new to the list. I've just been reading the > list archives... what a terrific resource! I have a PowerCenter Pro 210 > minitower. Well, I know that this is probably a dumb question but I've > gotten conflicting opinions, all from non-clone Mac users. > > What I'd like to ask is what kind of hard drives can I use in my clone? I > know that I can use the standard Mac SCSI kind, but are there any other > types that are viable for a PowerCenter Pro? My clone has an UltraSCSI PCI > card so I assume I can use that format as well. What about IDE? EIDE? ATA? > 50 pin or 68 pin? > > Could some of the list members who have had experience with these and/or > other drive formats could give me a nudge in the right direction..? Any > advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Scott -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
