I can't remember if I posted the problems I had between the VST ATA/66 card and the Apple/Adaptec 2940U2B here or not. In brief, having both installed under OS 9.1 caused all support for HFS+ to disappear. HFS+ volumes wouldn't mount; volumes could not be reinitialized as HFS+, etc. Either card by itself seemed to be okay. So I wasn't sure whether to blame the VST or the 2940U2B.
So I was doing some experiments on another machine, and I ran into the same problem between the E100 card and the VST card under OS 9.1. So, is anyone else out there using an E100, a VST UltraTech/66 and OS 9.1 in the same machine? If so, do you have any HFS+ volumes? Can you get them to mount? This problem only manifests under OS 9.1. It does not occur in OS 8.6 or 8.5. Now the testing that led to the above discovery was actually not related to that at all. It was my Retrospect problem I mentioned a week or two ago. I can't do a restore from my CDRW drive if the CDRW drive is on the internal Fast SCSI bus (Bus 0), but it works fine on the external/internal unenhanced SCSI bus (Bus 1). So I tested this on a couple of different motherboards, with different SCSI cables, with different devices moved to the end of the chain to provide termination, under 9.1 and 8.6, etc. and the problem remained. Remove the VST card and it goes away. In this case it definitely isn't the SCSI card, because one machine I tested in had an Adaptec 2940UW and the other had the E100. In one machine the drives were formatted wiht SoftRAID, in the other with HDTK. So the only thing in common seems to be the VST card. So, Retrospect users take note. The VST card seems to make the internal Fast SCSI bus unusable for Retrospect operations. The operation will start but only progress a few MB and then just idle. The little cursor gears will spin but no progress will be made. Retrospect usually has these problems when there's an underlying SCSI problem, so I would guess that things like large file transfers or transfers or large numbers of files using the internal bus would also fail and that MacBench Disk tests might not complete. At this point I would tentatively say that if you're in the market for an ATA card you may wish to avoid the UltraTech/66. It has great ATAPI support (CDROM, DVD drives) but there are a number of incompatibilities that keep cropping up that make me think it may be more headache than its low price is worth. I welcome reports of corroborating or contradictory experiences. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Processors, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
