08-15-2006, 03:00 AM
Jeez...
I come late to this thread... and look what I find!
Here's my $0.05:
For the cost of the EEPROM upgrade, you could get a whole new (used) card on ebay ($20 shipped or less)... that's where I got my 2930CU EEPROM v4.3 cards from, and they've worked great on two G4's and one B&W G3. The issue with the EEPROM has to do with supporting deep sleep on the G4 towers, IIRC. The earlier EEPROM v4.x cards will probably work, but IIRC, may cause kernel panics and/or sleep problems. There is a trick or two to getting the 2930CU v4.3 cards to work properly in X though... my remembrance is that I used an earlier version of the drivers, and also there are some tricks as regards to Zip drives (STF for my previous posts about this).
ATTO: I've had a few of these cards. The ATTO's have, in general, not been working as well as the Adaptecs in my hands... hard to believe, because the ATTO's are generally officially supported in X, while the Adaptecs aren't (though Adaptec is still listing them as being supported on their webpage, and ATTO is now listing some cards which were previously supported, as now unsupported). The non-PSC's won't work in X at all, the PSC (their lowest level card) will work in X, but not Tiger, at least last I checked. Here is a flash firmware updater for the Apple OEM ATTO cards, which I've found useful: http://www.os9forever.com/SCSICard.html
I come late to this thread... and look what I find!
Here's my $0.05:
For the cost of the EEPROM upgrade, you could get a whole new (used) card on ebay ($20 shipped or less)... that's where I got my 2930CU EEPROM v4.3 cards from, and they've worked great on two G4's and one B&W G3. The issue with the EEPROM has to do with supporting deep sleep on the G4 towers, IIRC. The earlier EEPROM v4.x cards will probably work, but IIRC, may cause kernel panics and/or sleep problems. There is a trick or two to getting the 2930CU v4.3 cards to work properly in X though... my remembrance is that I used an earlier version of the drivers, and also there are some tricks as regards to Zip drives (STF for my previous posts about this).
ATTO: I've had a few of these cards. The ATTO's have, in general, not been working as well as the Adaptecs in my hands... hard to believe, because the ATTO's are generally officially supported in X, while the Adaptecs aren't (though Adaptec is still listing them as being supported on their webpage, and ATTO is now listing some cards which were previously supported, as now unsupported). The non-PSC's won't work in X at all, the PSC (their lowest level card) will work in X, but not Tiger, at least last I checked. Here is a flash firmware updater for the Apple OEM ATTO cards, which I've found useful: http://www.os9forever.com/SCSICard.html