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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / November 2004Mac G5 with OS X and SCSI
Is there a [reliable] way to use my gazillion SCSI hard disks on my Mac G5 with OS X, say, using a PCI card or a Firewire gizmo? Thanks, PaulN > Is there a [reliable] way to use my gazillion SCSI hard disks on my Mac G5 > with OS X, say, using a PCI card or a Firewire gizmo? Thanks, PaulN NFS is fairly reliable once you get past OS 10.3 I have a seven-year-old Intel machine that I bought for $25 running FreeBSD 4.9 and providing extra disk space from both SCSI and ATA to the iMac via NFS. (I did have a Quadra with two small SCSI drives using AppleTalk over ethernet but I retired it)  SignatureWes Groleau Can we afford to be relevant? http://www.cetesol.org/stevick.html groleau+news@freeshell.org aszonygya: :> Is there a [reliable] way to use my gazillion SCSI hard disks on my Mac G5 :> with OS X, say, using a PCI card or a Firewire gizmo? Thanks, PaulN : :NFS is fairly reliable once you get past OS 10.3 I was misunderstood. I no longer have a SCSI machine. I would like to use my SCSI disks directly on my G5. BTW, I saw many adaptec SCSI PCI cards. Do they work on a G5? Thanks, Paul >groleau+news@freeshell.org aszonygya: >:> Is there a [reliable] way to use my gazillion SCSI hard disks on my Mac G5 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >BTW, I saw many adaptec SCSI PCI cards. Do they work on a G5? It depends on the card. Look at Adaptec's website whether there is a driver for OS-X. In addition, some cards need a Mac specific firmware. Some of these can be flashed, some not. Regards, Christoph Gartmann SignatureMax-Planck-Institut fuer Phone : +49-761-5108-464 Fax: -452 Immunbiologie Postfach 1169 Internet: gartmann@immunbio dot mpg dot de D-79011 Freiburg, Germany http://www.immunbio.mpg.de/home/menue.html > groleau+news@freeshell.org aszonygya: >:> Is there a [reliable] way to use my gazillion SCSI hard disks on my [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > BTW, I saw many adaptec SCSI PCI cards. Do they work on a G5? I was going to do the same thing, and even bought an Adaptec SCSI controller card (PCI) when I bought my G5 ... but then decided to bag the whole thing, since my SCSI drives are so small compared to my 160GB main drive. Didn't seem worth the trouble (and use of another slot) to me so I never tried it, so sorry, I can't tell you whether it worked or not. > groleau+news@freeshell.org aszonygya: > :> Is there a [reliable] way to use my gazillion SCSI hard disks on my Mac G5 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > BTW, I saw many adaptec SCSI PCI cards. Do they work on a G5? Get a card from Atto instead, Adaptec wont support SCSI on OSX in the future. <http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/supporteditorial.jsp?sess=no&l anguage=English+US&prodkey=mac_osx_info> "Adaptec is no longer developing SCSI drivers for the Mac OS. Technical support is available for those products still in their complimentary support period; however, there will be no new SCSI drivers, firmware, or patches available." SignatureMorten Reippuert Knudsen :-) <http://blog.reippuert.dk> PowerMac G5: 1.6GHz, 1.25GB RAM, 300+80GB Disk, 8xDVD+/-RW, Bluetooth mus+tastatur, FX5200 Ultra, iSight, eyeTV200 & LaCie Photon18Vision TFT >Is there a [reliable] way to use my gazillion SCSI hard disks on my Mac G5 >with OS X, say, using a PCI card or a Firewire gizmo? Thanks, PaulN You may use a SCSI-PCI card from ATTO. Regards, Christoph Gartmann SignatureMax-Planck-Institut fuer Phone : +49-761-5108-464 Fax: -452 Immunbiologie Postfach 1169 Internet: gartmann@immunbio dot mpg dot de D-79011 Freiburg, Germany http://www.immunbio.mpg.de/home/menue.html > Is there a [reliable] way to use my gazillion SCSI hard disks on my Mac G5 > with OS X, say, using a PCI card or a Firewire gizmo? Thanks, PaulN Unless you have quite large and/or fast drives this isn't worth the effort. The price of a single Mac SCSI controller will buy you at least 160GB of space on one IDE disk that is fast (when compared to pre10000rpm SCSI drives), quiet and comes at very little power consumption. I once was a big fan of SCSI on desktop machines but for a few years now that prices and target market have diverged so drastically it's just not worth it unless you really need the access time only 15k rpm drives can provide. Thomas Jahns Signature"Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind." D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley 1984, 1986, 1996, p. 9 |
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