[G4] SCSI, G4 Digital Audio, and OS 10.2.8

Paul Frye paulfrye at mac.com
Tue Feb 3 14:57:46 PST 2004


This is from my profiler on my G4 D1.25GHZ machine running OSX 10.3.2.

The card is the Adaptec 2940 U2W.  The first partition is my boot drive and
all works as advertised.  No problems sleeping or shutting down.  System is
fast, too.

Regards,

Paul

IBM DDYS-T36950N:

  Capacity:    34.18 GB
  Manufacturer:    IBM
  Model:    DDYS-T36950N
  Revision:    S96H
  Removable Media:    No
  Detachable Drive:    No
  BSD Name:    disk3
  OS9 Drivers:    Yes
  Target:    6
  SCSI LUN:    0

OS-X 10.1:

  Capacity:    17.09 GB
  Available:    5.31 GB
  Writable:    Yes
  File System:    Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:    disk3s9
  Mount Point:    /

Macintosh HD:

  Capacity:    17.09 GB
  Available:    7.11 GB
  Writable:    Yes
  File System:    HFS+
  BSD Name:    disk3s10
  Mount Point:    /Volumes/Macintosh HD



On 2/3/04 11:44, "Wade Perry" <wadeperry at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Attention All SCSI Genii,
> 
> I have been given (2) 80 pin pristine ( 1 is new) Seagate Cheetah 18Gb LVD
> 10,000 rpm SCSI drives. I found an Orange Micro  PCI Grappler 940UW SCSI
> card on sale for 29.49 + 6.00 shipping.
> 
> My question is: Does anyone use SCSI successfully in OS X? Can you boot from
> an internal SCSI drive in OS X? I have seen fairly cheap external SCSI cases
> on eBay (10.00 USD), would an external SCSI drive boot in OS X?
> 
> These drives would be used for back-up and DVD/iMovie project storage. Is it
> worth 40.00 to utilize these drives.
> 
> Looking forward to your replies.



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