>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?
The PDC20269M chip is the one which supports the Mac. In order to prevent "diversion" to Mac use, the non-M chip (PDC20269) has an internal FLASH memory which is intentionally one-half the size required to accommodate the Mac firmware. (Perhaps OS X can fake the required support, just as it faked the Slave support on Rev. 1 Beiges). >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. My solution for large capacity at low cost per GB is to use an ACARD SCSI-IDE "bridge". The latest firmware includes 48-bit LBA, for support of ANY size UATA drive, although the cards are limited to one device (drive) per card, and 40 MB/sec throughput per card. (The LVD/SE versions are faster, of course). I use lots of UW versions of this product on 160 GB to 250 GB hard drives on my Macs, and a version is also available which has an N-SCSI connector, which would be perfect for a PowerTower Pro and its on-motherboard F-SCSI bus. (There is also a version of this card which can convert EIDE CD- or DVD-ROM-R-R/W units to SCSI, and Toast appears to support these converted devices as fully as it does a real SCSI device. I have had no problem playing DVDs, nor burning CDs, but I haven't tried to burn a DVD yet). -- 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> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
