On Jun 26, 7:34 am, No No grizzledgia...@gmail.com wrote:
The Acard SCSI/IDE adapter was a great choice a few years ago.
However, it is no longer economical.
A few years ago there's were scores of them on Ebay for $30 - $40.
Now it is difficult to find one for under $150. It's just two
You're looking at a card which plugs into a PCI slot and provides ATA/
IDE interfaces for drives. Those, the 6280M and the 6880M are
sometimes available on Ebay for about $30 - $50. The 6880M is like
the 6280M, except that it supports RAID 0 and RAID 1.
The 6280M (any variation) is a
I checked Acards' website yesterday for these very cards. They wanted
$89 for an PCI-ATA adapter.
That is not significantly different from their price nearly 15 years ago.
Over the years, one could get a 68-pin UW-SCSI adapter card (fits on the
back of an ATA drive, any size and capacity,
