Hi Will, Will S wrote:
(snipped) > Oh but Promise does make Mac IDE cards in a way. They supplied the > firmware for the VST card which was one of the first Mac IDE cards. OWC > hired Promise to write new firmware for the VST card so it will run OSX > (and also to help them sell the mountain of left over cards they had stock > piled ;-) Promise also makes the firmware for the Sonnet ATA 100 & 133 IDE > cards. I don't know who manufactures these cards it may well > be Promise. Acard is the only other company making Mac IDE cards. As far > as I've been able to tell. Great information! The point is that Promise does not sell Mac compatible cards under its own name though. I was keeping an eye on IDE cards sold by SIIG; the product line changed several times and as far as I can figure out, some of them are indeed Acard clones, while others are not; if VST doesn't actually manufacture them then Promise could be a likely suspect. On the Windows side there are still plenty of brands such as Tekram, etc. But if the manufacturers are so very entwined in hardware and software supply and development, making otherwise Mac-compatible products ostensibly incompatible, and at the same time selling a small proportion of them as "Mac version" at silly mark-ups, I do not think I would hesitate too much in trying to make Windows version of any product Mac compatible even though it involves a little jiggery-pokery unless it is impossible (the Matrox conversion is an example of course!) All the best, Sam. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
