> You're looking at a card which plugs into a PCI slot and provides ATA/ > IDE interfaces for drives. Those, the 6280M and the 6880M are > sometimes available on Ebay for about $30 - $50. The 6880M is like > the 6280M, except that it supports RAID 0 and RAID 1.
The 6280M (any variation) is a non-RAID adapter with Mac firmware (known to work with PPC Macs ... most likely won't work with Intel Macs). The 6880M (any variation) is a RAID adapter with Mac firmware (same comments as above). Unlike Promise and many others which licensed their Mac firmware from Firmtek, ACARD develops its own Mac firmware, which probably explains why they were so soon to come out with LBA48 support in their own adapters, whereas others came rather late to the LBA48 support scene. The $30 card from eBay (a Hong Kong seller, IIRC) is a PCI card which is at home in a G-series Mac as these have the longer slot which this card requires. One internal UATA 100/133 port (supports LBA48 and two drives) and one on-card space which accepts any ATA 2.5" drive (both mounting formats, the early one and the present one). Drive power from the PCI bus. This is the 6280MD, where the D suffix indicates support for an on-card 2.5" hard drive. As usual, the attached drives are made to appear as SCSI by the ACARD firmware. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
