Re: [WinMac] SCSI cards for G4 Macs

Tom Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 08:59:01 -0500

>> Tom Roth originally wrote:
>>
>> Anyone have a recommendation for adding a SCSI card to one of the new
>> SCSI-less G4s?
>>
>> And yes Dan, I know you hate Adaptec.

I got many replies so I'm going to combine them all and reply together.

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> Nick Scalise replied:
>
> The Initio Miles Bluenote should work. About $80 and it's bootable. If you
> need faster (more expensive) SCSI, Miles has that too.
> <http://initio.com/products/9090umac.htm>

I've never heard of the "Initio Miles Bluenote" SCSI card. If you
hadn't told me I would have thought "Initio Miles Bluenote" was a jazz
group! I'll have to look into it. Thanks Nick!

> Nick further adds:
> and Dan likes it

Whew! That's a relief! ;)

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> Peter Thomas replied:
>
> We have had great success with the Adaptec cards here in my office.
> We have them in just about all of our G3 and G4 machines.

I've never used them in a Mac before but they are the only thing I've
used on PCs and they've always worked fine. Never had any trouble with
them whatsoever. Thanks Peter!

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> Tim Scoff replied:
>
> I have one of the Initio Miles U2W SCSI Cards and it's
> performance is fantastic, but it doesn't like OS 9 and virtual
> memory. With virtual memory turned off it's great.

OK, I'll have to watch out for that if I get that card.

> The Adaptec 2940 cards have multiple SCSI busses so you can
> run U2W devices on one bus and a scanner on the other bus without
> slowing down the U2W hard drive to UW speeds.

We've not decided yet if we'll pull out the IDE drives and replace them
with SCSI drives. If we do then that would be a nice feature. For now
I just need something to connect our scanners and for that the SCSI card
doesn't need to be super fast. I know I didn't mention that in my first
message. Thanks Tim!

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> Daniel Schwartz replied:
>
> Atto makes a very nice card... It works with the non-standard PCI
> implementation PowerPC Macs use. [They don't use BIOS, and they
> don't use ARC.]

That does sound different. I'll have to check them out too. Thanks Dan!

> Just don't get me started on Ineptec... On a Mac, PC, or Alpha...
>
> No, the AdapCrap 3940 series is the 2 channel card.

As I suspected.

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