>I have a Beige G3 with only 32 MB RAM (More coming) running OS 9.2. Thecomputer has SCSI capacity, but no SCSI appliances internally. There is an internal male SCSI outlet on the board. Could I connect a ribbon to the outlet and use a SCSI hard drive (or two) as well as the IDE hard drive?
One way around the 128 GB barrier of the pre-G4 "mirror door" machines, including the Beige, is to use SCSI, either the motherboard's SCSI (Beige) or a SCSI card (B&W and later).
With an ACARD SCSIDE "Bridge" on a HUGE UATA drive, that drive will be seen as a HUGE SCSI drive, with no limits as to size.
Alas, one drive per "Bridge", but I've got a 250 GB drive in my Beige, and a 400 GB would not be a problem to support.
ACARD is one of the very few companies to retrofit 48-bit LBA support to some its older products.
Better to use an IDE PCI card as you can get higher throughput. If you use the IDE-SCSI adapter. You are limited to the throughput of your SCSI bus.
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