Sonnet Temp RAID133 work inside 8500?

[haemogoblin]

Have the opportunity to buy one of these for $40 and was thinking this might finally be a good way to swap out the SCSI devices for something faster. As some might have seen, I've been mulling over buying an ultra scsi card, but this had come up and it got be seriously wondering.

I have a plentiful supply of IDE devices after all.

 

[trag]

In practice you probably won't get better than 20 - 25 MB/s writes and maybe as much as 40 MB/s reads, even with a fast modern ATA drive. That said, it's still a big improvement over the built-in SCSI. I don't remember if the card has OSX support, but officially, the 8500 doesn't either.

The Acard 6880M will let you creat a RAID that's usable in both OSX and Classic, in case you're willing to consider a different card.

 

[haemogoblin]

But it should work fine under os9 and I can boot from a drive connected to it?

 

[trag]

But it should work fine under os9 and I can boot from a drive connected to it?

Yes, accoding to the literature back when it was a current product. I don't have that card myself. I have IDE cards from Acard, the functionality is very similar.

 

[EvilCapitalist]

I've got a slightly older card (Sonnet Tempo ATA100) which worked fine in my 8500.  I believe it uses a Promise controller.