Re: Conflict? I think it war.
Paul Dougherty (pauld@interport.net)
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 19:48:07 -0400 (EDT)
>Paul Dougherty
>
>>I was thinking about the Firemax 2 card that will do firewire & SCSI
>>acceleration, combining that with a single drive (4 maybe 8 gig). I'm
>>trying to postpone an expensive heavy-duty array till I get something like
>>an MCXpress. Unfortunately I was told by a sales person at Promax that
>>there are unresolved issues re. the built-in SCSI acceleration on the
>>Firemax 2 and he advised against using it that way. Any comments?
>
>Which 9500 motherboard did you upgrade with a G3? 120, 133, 150 or 200
>MHz?
>
>Early 9500's are a beast of their own. If you got corruption it could be
>the G3 upgrade or who knows ? G3 upgrades work sometime and sometimes
>they don't.
Its a 233 G3 upgrade and I can't think of any other anomalies with it (had
it a year)
>I would advise at going with caution since any video solution including a
>FireMAX-2 may or may not work without a bit of tinkering anyway.
Anyone esle out there who has done DV (not RAID) w/ FireMAX-2 for SCSI
acceleration?