A FireMAX-2 will most likely work but again I would like to know the
original motherboard...was it a 120, 150, 200, or ?. Early motherboards
behaved differently with PCI cards.
>>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?
Thanks,
Charles F. McConathy
President, ProMax Systems, Inc., Irvine, Calif.
Digital Video Editing Turnkey Systems - Data Storage Specialist
Web Sites: http://www.promax.com and http://www.firemax-dv.com