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Title: acard uw-scsi to ide changer
Post by: shIva on December 30, 2002, 06:53:58 PM

hey ho !
has anyone ever tried to use the acard scsi to ide changer ?
it´s availible at kdh-datentechnik for eur ~69,- .
are there any drivers needed, or is it just a hw solution (i want to use it with my sun ultra 5 -> if it works in an amiga it will shurely work in a sun ;-) )

Title: Re: acard uw-scsi to ide changer
Post by: cutaway on December 30, 2002, 07:23:27 PM

Hi
hohoho
Yes I have tried using the acard scsi>ide card
and i must say that it works just great
The machine was an Internetgateway and proxy server, with a modempool and a lan card,
with heavy disc activity ((wintel P3 800Mhz. 512MB
 running Slackware Linux 8.x)
the scsi controller was an adaptec new model
(can't remember the number)
the harddrive was a 40GB Maxtor I think..

No driver is needed, and the card also works with some IDE CDwriters as well, but not plextors!
 At least not the one I tried (40x CDRW).

There are two models of the card,
a 50pin and a 68pinUW.
When it is connected, the computer just think it is another scsi harddrive/cdrom drive.
I remember the manual saying something about the largest supported Harddrive was 160GB.
hope that was an answer you could use.
happy new year :-D

Title: Re: acard uw-scsi to ide changer
Post by: Effy on December 30, 2002, 07:53:18 PM

I got myself one some weeks ago at the Retro fair in Aachen, but I haven't tested it yet. I do know that you can only connect one single IDE device to it, not two, so no master and slave devices.  Think I paid 89 euro  to KDH. Wanna use it to have a fast scsi thing to save videostuff that comes from my Vlab/Motion on my A4000. Hope it will do as well as Cutaway says !!!

Title: Re: acard uw-scsi to ide changer
Post by: shIva on December 30, 2002, 10:52:16 PM

thx ! atm kdh-datentechnik sells them for <70 eur. i think i´ll get one ;)

Title: Re: acard uw-scsi to ide changer
Post by: JoannaK on January 01, 2003, 05:32:20 AM

I have talked on local Amiga channel with some people who are having these SCSI-Ide adapters  and they all have been happy to their purchases.  If I had scsi-machine I would purchase one too.  :-)

Title: Re: acard uw-scsi to ide changer
Post by: Piru on January 01, 2003, 05:41:24 AM

I have two SCSI-2 adaptors (60 and 40 gig maxtors connected) via BPPC scsi. Works great (9.7MB/sec). No reformat needed, I could plug the IDE drive as-is and have full access of the drive. No problemas at all, and in case of SCSI failure I can access the disk via IDE... Pretty cool stuff.

I higly recommend this if you only have a slow IDE.