on 01/11/01 08:23, Patrick Pietrasz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, I received my Starmax 3000/200 yesterday, set it right up, and > now it's running OS 9.1 (although only slowly, 32MB). Where can I find > information about the onboard SCSI controller? Although I figure that with > the slow bus speed, SCSI might not make that much of a performance > difference. I'm also eventually planning on adding a Voodoo3 PCI flashed to > a Mac BIOS...has anyone had any experience with voodoo3's and a Starmax? > > Thanks > > > Patrick Pietrasz > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > University of Rochester > Rochester, NY 14627-5322 > Hi, Pat. Our SCSI isn't up to much: maybe 1 or 2 megs per second on a good day. If you're looking for a big big boost in hard drive performance, try an ATA-66 "Host Adapter". Acard has them, and Sonnet, among others. (I have an Acard.) Each board will handle 4 Ultra DMA drives, 2 as slaves, 2 as masters. They boot, they really fly, and the drives are much cheaper than SCSI. The only thing is drives have to be initialized to the board so you can't move them back to the built-in IDE without re-initializing. The StarMax likes to have an IDE drive always hooked to the motherboard: just leave your original drive there; you don't have to boot from it. IMHO there isn't much point going to ATA 100 or 10,000 rpm drives because of our 40 meg bus speed limit. I don't run Voodoo, but many Maxers have reported excellent results. Lou
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