Hi all
I have a PowerTower Pro with a G3 of unknown origin, I think its a Newertech. Anyway, I've got a boat load of creaking old SCSI drives attached to it via a real, Mac labelled ROM Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card (as in, not a reflashed PeeCee one) and I'd like to modernize. SCSI drives are very expensive, IDE ones are cheap. I'm aware that the IDE ones probably won't last 15 years like the SCSI ones will, but that's OK. 200gigs, $179, makes IDE look damn inviting. Plus, I don't know that the PCI bus on this old box can tax even the Adaptec card to its full potential, so I think the speed of a new SCSI drive would largely be wasted here. Maybe not..
Anyway, I've got me a PCI based Maxtor ATA133 RAID card here, with the chip labelled Promise PDC20269, ATA133 V2.20 B10. That is the only chip on there, so its not like it has a ROM I can remove to reprogram or have it done. Are there drivers for this chip available for any flavor of Mac OS? I've got several IDE drives lying around, one is a ten gig and one is a 13 gig, together they total almost what the SCSI drives, all six of them, have in capacity.
Additionally, the SCSI drives are formatted in some bizarre 3rd party way, as a striped RAID array, but I'll be damned if I can find any sort of info on them, what was used, if its still on here or not (I got this computer second hand, in an already running state and didn't dare to redo it all because it has Photoshop 6 on it and there's no way I can afford a new Photoshop..)
I grow nervous about the reliability of this giant stack of hot hard drives as time goes on :-/
Bolton
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