[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 10:26:43 CDT 2006


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.

It's the former.  The LSI22801 is incompatible with Mac.

Peace...  Sridhar



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