[G4] Not booting G4 from External SCSI HD

[Mel]

Ronald,

Interesting.  The Adaptec 2906 PCI card has a 25 pin female connector.

I shall research the ATTO PCI cards.

Thanks.

Mel

--- On Sun, 7/20/08, Ronald Steinke <ronsteinke at mac.com> wrote:
From: Ronald Steinke <ronsteinke at mac.com>
Subject: Re: [G4] Not booting G4 from External SCSI HD
To: senseamp at yahoo.com, "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 4:56 PM

On 20 Jul, 08, at 14:23, John Niven wrote:

>  It should not be different with external drives. Most SCSI problems  
> relate to improper termination, or i.d. assignments.

Not quite so.

My experiences with some of the ATTO cards showed me that the majority  
of the cards that had Ultra-Wide
 SCSI ports for the external  
connection would not allow me to boot to my external drives. When I  
installed card with a standard SCSI 25-pin connection, I could boot to  
the external drives.

Unfortunately, it has been over three years since I have used those  
kinds of ATTO cards and I cannot remember their part numbers. Sorry  
that I cannot give more information than what I have.
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