On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 07:37 PM, Wilton H. Shaw wrote:
I'm a little confused.
That is what we are here for.
I had a friend of mine install an 80Gb HD in the expansion slot in my G3-MT,
leaving my original 4GB HD installed.
You said hooking it to the internal bus would format it as IDE or
hooking it to a pci card would format it as SCSI.
I thought you simply installed the drive in the slot, hooked up the power
and the ribbon and you were in business. How do you hook up to a pci card?
If you hook the card to the onboard IDE connector, which from your description is what you did, your Mac sees it as a regular IDE/ATA drive and it will work fine,
The pci card and SCSI reference is if you were to buy a pci card that is faster than the onboard IDE controller on your Mac. These cards (I also have the Acard 133) work by tricking the OS to see the attached drive as a scsi drive and will format it as such, but you can still use Drive Setup to format it.
The advantage of using one of these cards is the increased drive throughput you can get. I assume that your 80g is about as fast as mine, an IBM. When I hooked it to the onboard ATA I got transfer rates maxing out at about 14 MB/sec. When I hooked it to the Acard 133 card, I got transfer rates of almost 40MB/sec. Whether you will notice the difference depends on what you are doing.
Basically, enjoy the vast open spaces on your drive and if you are not a speed freak or doing very disk intensive work, don't worry about the pci cards.
HTH, Len
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