[SPARCbook] ADTX SCSI-IDE identification

Thu Mar 6 15:12:02 CST 2003

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:03:15PM +0000, Chris Powell wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> If I remember correctly there are two versions of the ADTX SCSI-IDE
> converter card. One version has a drive size limitation (2Gb???),
> and has 'slow SCSI transfer'. How can the two be differentiated? Has
> anyone got experience of both?

The size limit is about 6.5GB for the slower model.  I have one with
a slightly larger drive in it, but was only able to access the first
~6.5GB of the drive.

I don't know how much faster the faster model actually is.

I believe the Solaris "format", and probably OpenBoot probe-scsi too,
will print out identification information about the adapter, but I
don't know what that looks like for the newer-faster ADTX card.

Mark

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