This has probably been discussed before but here goes. I am looking on ebay at an Acard AEC A7720U SCSI to IDE adapter. It is a buy it now for $24.95. Has anyone had any experience with it on the Starmax? I checked Acard's website for more info and no mention was made of Mac support but it seems like the kind of thing that might be dumb enough to not care what OS is being used. While on the Acard site I looked at some of their other products and found a PCI ATA133 card that is supposed to work under MacOS 8.5 and up. It says it was made with the G3 and G4 in mind. It is around $70.00 and would support 4 drives while the SCSI adapter above will only support one. Same question about this one. Will it work? I can see possibilities for it driving a dvdr deck or some such as well as a hard drive and maybe even use my 250 IDE zip drive a little more effectively. That leads to another question. What success has there been burning dvds on the SM? Is that stretching an itty bitty thing a little too far? Thanks in advance for any help. redsilo
I have used the AEC A7720U on my PM9600 with great success. It is a driverless device and should present no problem working in the StarMax. The PCI card _should_ work in the StarMax, but you should wait until someone verifies it one way or the other. The only issue would be if the card requires PCI 2.1 or has an issue with the SM PCI setup. If you go with the PCI card, I'd suggest leaving the zip and DVD on the internal IDE connectors. The zip drive will be limited by how fast it moves data on and off the disk and the DVD because it may have issues with being run from the PCI card.
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