scsi pci cards for early ppc systems?

[chelseayr]

was there not that much of a market inbetween nubus cards and for-macos8-or-better pci cards? not necessarily saying that 5MB/s is a bad thing for causal 7.x setup uses but just wondering about it still

 

[johnklos]

There was a big market for them. ATTO made many cards which were used for lots of editing systems and the like. I have many 32 bit, 40 MB/sec UW-SCSI, 64 bit, 80 MB/sec U2W-SCSI, and even some older differential SCSI cards.

 

[Compgeke]

ATTO Cards (UL series, most commonly), Adaptec PowerDomain and OrangeMicro Grappler SCSI cards were the three most common. 

 

[chelseayr]

hmm interesting I never found much before as apparent by lack of notes. thanks for not mind me asking, will probably have to look more

 

[chelseayr]

sorry to add another post here so soon but I'm just wondering if anyone here had seen the software for grappler cards or are they rather elusive if one didn't get the bundled disk/cd with theirs? makes me thinking that between grappler and powerdomain the latter probably just is less of a headache to actually get running

 

[Byrd]

SCSI cards should just work out of the box; what software do you need?

 

[chelseayr]

byrd hm, perhaps that shows how I don't know a lot as I just recall having to find extensions for most cards/peripherals I used to use in the past (excluding that the wacom artpad could behave as a normal 1:1 mouse without its extension - that I found out accidentally)

cheers still

 

[Unknown_K]

You needed models with the classic MAC ROM if you wanted to boot from the cards. I have quite a few SCSI cards that work in PCI PPC macs. The hardest to find model is the ATTO UL5D for the PCIE model G5 towers.