do you still have any of these? i probably finally have $6 to spare... also some mac hardware like firewire cable etc. if there's something you need and of course plenty of older stuff.
Kris Tilford wrote: > > I recently got some Adaptec AVA-2930 50-pin SCSI cards that are 20 Mbps > transfer rate which is double the Apple MESH onboard SCSI and 4x the > external speed. They have one standard 50-pin internal connector and > one type2 smaller external connector. These cards were NOT the > PowerDomain version that work with Mac. My understanding is that the > PowerDomain were either OS 9 or OS X but not both? (I think you had to > flash them). Either way, here is what I learned about these PC version > cards: > > They ARE recognized and will mount drives normally in OS X (tested in > Jaguar & Panther only). They won't directly boot in OS X since they > need the OS X kernel extensions to function, but there is a solution > thanks to Ryan Remple and xPostFacto. If you select a drive attached to > the card as a boot drive in XPF (I used XPF 3.0a17), and use the > "helper drive" function that uses a second helper drive attached to the > internal SCSI bus to start the boot, the Adaptec card extensions > actually load early and the boot process is handed off perfectly to the > 2930 card's drive. Voil�, we have double speed SCSI booting on a cheap > PC card. It has worked perfectly for me for over a month now, and I > imagine many other Adaptec PC SCSI cards should work just the same if > you use a helper drive to boot from. > > If anyone is using old unsupported Mac's would like to have one of my > extra cards and double their 50-pin transfer speed, I'd send them one > basically for free. I'd need $6 for packing & shipping within the USA. > You would need to have a second 50-pin SCSI cable. I will try and see > if my local recycler has any for cheap, but I don't have extra cables > right now, only the cards. E-mail me directly at: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] of you want one. I've tested them all to be 100% > certain they boot in OS X. (The will not work booted in OS 9 and any > drives attached will not be usable in OS 9, although they are fine for > 'classic' OS 9 from within OS X). > > If anyone has other PC cards that might work in OS X as boot drives > using the XPF helper function it would be nice to hear a report if they > work. I was so pleasantly surprised to see a standard PC card working > to boot from in an old Mac. Let me know if you might want one, Thanks! > Kris Tilford > > -- > Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism � ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power.": President Franklin D. Roosevelt <http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm> -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
