At 17:55 -0800 01/27/2003, William Smith wrote: >I have a Umax 900S. > >I have been given a BIOTEQ IDE-3296 RMC > >It has-Data Bus 32-bit PCI, is half-length, >half-height, >supports 4 IDE (AT) drives with a 40 pin connector. > >1. Is this usable for me? >2. My only current open slot is at the bottom. >3. How do you deal with a 40-pin connection? >
That sounds like an IDE card. IDE drives use a 40 pin cable, so you don't need to deal with the connector. You just use a 40 pin cable to connect the IDE card to an IDE drive. The drives that come with the stock S900 are SCSI drives. SCSI is a different interface from IDE and uses a different cable (50 pin in this case, but there are others). The card probably will not work in your S900. I don't recognize the name of the card, which means it is probably a card for the PC, not for Macs. IDE cards must have a driver stored on a non-volatile memory chip (EEPROM or Flash) on the card which tells the computer how to use the card. The driver is different depending on whether the target computer is a Mac or PC, so the Mac cards don't work in PCs and vice versa (unless one changes teh contents of that chip). You can plug it in and try it. PCI is PCI, so trying it out shouldn't hurt anything, it simply won't work, becasue the Mac won't know how to use it. 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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
