Hi Jeff, Jeff Walther wrote:
(snipped) > Anyway, I've never had my hands on the Acard cards, so I really don't know for > certain. Years ago, before I bought my VST card and then some Promise cards, I > looked into this and it was my understanding > that the Acards were Mac or PC simply based on firmware and that the PC cards > were flashable to Mac use without soldering, but I can't guarantee that to be > true. Feeling somewhat curious I went to the Acard site for a sticky-beak: http://www.acard.com/eng/product/adapter/mac/ide/aec-6880m.html http://www.acard.com/eng/product/adapter/pc/ide/aec-6880.html The pictures of these cards sure look very similar but I can see the Mac version has a little double DIP switch which I think is for manually enable the RAID function. Discrepencies also exist between the Mac and PC versions of other cards such as the 4-channel RAID: http://www.acard.com/eng/product/adapter/mac/ide/aec-6885ms.html http://www.acard.com/eng/product/adapter/pc/ide/aec-6885s.html but the plain 2-channel cards seem to be the same: http://www.acard.com/eng/product/adapter/mac/ide/aec-6280m.html http://www.acard.com/eng/product/adapter/pc/ide/aec-6280.html It would all make sense if the photographs are the actual cards described though. Still hoping to find one that is Mac compatible, but not terribly keen on the idea of having to pay the premium for having "Mac compatible" printed on the box! 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
