[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

velociraptor velociraptor at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 10:25:02 CDT 2006


On 10/12/06, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> velociraptor wrote:
> > The common Sun PCI Symbios SCSI card (LSI22801) with those funky
> > external connectors has internal 68-pin (and 50-pin) connectors.  That
> > card may well work in a G5, since it's designed for OBP.
>
> I can verify to a certainty that they *do not* work in a Mac.  I can
> also verify that most Adaptec, Atto and Apple-branded PCI SCSI cards for
> Macs don't boot Suns successfully.

You mean the LSI22801 doesn't work for booting Macs, or *at all*?  If
the former, that's livable; if the latter, that's really too bad.

=Nadine=



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