[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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