TurboMax PCI host adapter (Ultra-ATA)
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The TurboMax card is not detected at start up with LinuxPPC 2.2.1. With the MacOS the card is seen as a scsi card and apple drive setup can partition and initialize disks attached to the card, as can FWB Hard Disk ToolKit using its generic scsi drivers. I have a pair of 17.2G maxtors attached to the card each on its own cable, configured as a master drive. Oddly enough on my setup (rev1 G3) pdisk only sees the first, scsi1.0, failing to see scsi1.1.
I wish a I knew enough to attempt setting up a driver as these drives are
cheap (whole setup including tax and shipping $730) and fast.
Brian
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Date: 8 Apr 1999 17:38:50 -0000
From: [email protected]
Subject: TurboMax PCI host adapter (Ultra-ATA)Hi,
Can anyone verify that this card works with LinuxPPC? Comparing the price of an Ultra ATA drive with SCSI makes this
method look really attractive at the 17Gb drive size. They confirm that it'll run under MacOS on a 7500, at least.Noel Suarez found an inexpensive way to add 10GB of high-speed storage to his Power Mac G3/233:
"I saw the ad from ProMax for an Ultra ATA/DMA PCI card for the Mac.
When I asked the sales guy on the phone a couple of
weeks ago if I could boot off the Ultra ATA/DMA drives attached to the
card, he said no. I ordered it anyway. It just shipped 2
days ago and I installed it yesterday when I got my 10.1 GB Ultra
ATA/DMA drive from PC Warehouse. The drive was $199
and the card was $99. I reformatted the drive with Apple Drive Setup -
and installed MacOS 8.5 on it and it booted just fine."
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Thanks,
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