At 11:08 -0700 04/29/2002, Will S wrote:
>The company that made it for UMAX (jackhammer?) >is long gone. later Will S JackHammer is the model name of the equivalent PCI card without the ethernet portion. The original maker of the JackHammer line was FWB (yes, the makers of the Hard Disk Toolkit and CD ToolKit software). Long ago they sold hardware. In fact, they didn't sell Hard Disk Tool Kit as a separate product. It was their own in-house disk formatting utility and they sold hard drives. In comparison after comparison of hard disks, the FWB drives were faster even though they used the same Quantum mechanisms as many of their competitors. FWB also made and sold the excellent NuBus Jackhammer card and they sold preconfigured RAIDs of hard drives and their RAID ToolKit utility with them. Later they started selling Hard Disk ToolKit separately and eventually made the decision to become a pure software company. I believe that the continued selling SCSI cards and developed the PCI JackHammer after they dropped selling hard drives. When they dropped hardware altogether, they sold the JackHammer line off to StreamLogic. StreamLogic was bought by some other company a couple of years ago and they supposedly have a trade-in program but I don't know that they actually make Mac cards. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the company either. It doesn't really matter though, because for all practicle purposes (except maybe, downloading old Jackhammer software) the company is, as Will wrote, long gone. I don't think it would actually be all that hard to write a Unix driver for the ethernet portion of the card. Doing the hardware exploration that would shed light on it is one of my queued projects. However, it won't be much use unless someone develops drivers for the JackHammer portion of the card and no-one has done that. 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! | SPECIAL SM LIST PRICES - 24x Bootable SCSI CDROM $39.99, Umax Processors $19.99 PowerSupplies from C500/C600 $49.99 J700/S900 $79.99 <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
