David Kelly wrote:
Adaptec doesn't have the worlds best reputation for allowing people
to write drivers (or even for writing non-buggy firmware) but I seem
to recall that the Macs that ship with SCSI support use an Adaptec
chipset... oh, on looking, it appears that the IIci uses an NCR
SCSI chipset... specifically, the 5380 which was found on many
commodity PC SCSI cards too.
I don't recall Apple ever using Adaptec chips. Their first ethernet
card (NuBus) was done by 3-Com and so marked. Recently (several years
ago) Apple offered a high end Atto SCSI card with new systems. Power
Computing was the one who shipped possibly the world's first Adaptec
2930's, years before a much improved 2930 hit the boxed shelves.
IIRC the first PowerPC Macs had two SCSI busses, one was NCR and the
other was a combo AMD Lance ethernet and SCSI.
Yeah, looks like I was mistaken on that point... I wonder where I saw an
Adaptec chip and was surprised then...
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