From: Jeff Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:58:33 -0600
I must have been unlcear. I was not trying to contradict your
clarification. I was saying that I had this unclear memory that one
company used different cards for their 100/133 and RAID. In my
original posting I picked the wrong company. Your clarification
cleared up the memory, so that it is now clear that it was Sonnet and
not SIIG who used two different brands of cards at that time.
Any way, I was trying to agree with you and understand how my hazy
memories fit into your clarification. Probably should have just left
well enough alone as such internal exposures are usually confusing to
the folks not inside the head in question. :-)
Jeff Walther
No problem sorry if I sounded like a crank ;-) It was I thought just
who ever talking back and forth until we came up with what seemed to be
the correct answers. I'm surprised SIIG has it seems come up with their
own cards after always buying Mac stuff from someone else.
From: Paul Shuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:36:37 -0500
As I have recently installed this very card here is how it is
displayed in system profiler running 10.4.3
2-ch ATA:
Name: SIIG-680-R1
Type: ata
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-B
Vendor ID: 0x1095
Device ID: 0x0680
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x4895
Subsystem ID: 0x0680
ROM Revision: 1.0
Revision ID: 0x00
Paul thanks for this info. It confirms it's not an Acard in either
looks nor firmware. Acards show up as Acard no matter who's label is on
the card and Acards are all seen as SCSI cards. This one is seen as ata
like the Sonnet promise/firmtek cards. It would be interesting to see
if it has the OSX install on the first 8gb of the drives issue the
Sonnets have. If so then it would likely be that they are using firmtek
firmware. Now if it doesn't have that issue and no other new ones this
could be a great card for older Macs & clones. Drives being seen as ata
(which they are) would allow the use of the smart drive technology to
check hard drive health & life left. Disk Warrior and a few others have
this ability but it doesn't work if the ATA drives are seen as SCSI.
Will S
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