>>Be advised that this card will not work with a rev a rom... >> >>I speak from experience.. >> >>>I recently bought a Maxtor 80GB drive which is connected to the on-board IDE >>>bus in my beige MT. I've got one slot open and I'm wondering if I would >>>obtain much of a speed increase if I added a SIIG Ultra ATA/133 controller. >>>Any help is much appreciated. > >Be advised that it works just fine in my Rev. A Beige Mini Tower... > >I speak from experience as well.
Maxtor has shipped Maxtor-branded controllers made by SIIG and Promise. (Maxtor is apparently now shipping only Maxtor-branded Promise controllers). The SIIG controllers are Mac-compatible; the Promise controllers are not. Maxtor doesn't claim that anything besides the raw drive itself is Mac-compatible. Essentially, the UATA/133 controller which Maxtor has provided was provided "free" with the drive, and something which has zero value according to the seller isn't expected to do anything. As a practical matter, the controller will indeed work in a PC, and it will provide 48-bit LBA and/or 133 MB/sec drive-to-controller transfer rate in a PC, which is why the card was provided with the drive in the first place. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-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/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
