TurboMax PCI host adapter (Ultra-ATA)

TurboMax PCI host adapter (Ultra-ATA)

[LinuxPPC-Dev]

Hi,

Can anyone verify that this card works with LinuxPPC?  Comparing the price of an Ultra ATA drive with SCSI makes this
method look really attractive at the 17Gb drive size.  They confirm that it'll run under MacOS on a 7500, at least.

Noel Suarez found an inexpensive way to add 10GB of high-speed storage to his Power Mac G3/233: 

   "I saw the ad from ProMax for an Ultra ATA/DMA PCI card for the Mac. When I asked the sales guy on the phone a couple of
   weeks ago if I could boot off the Ultra ATA/DMA drives attached to the card, he said no. I ordered it anyway. It just shipped 2
   days ago and I installed it yesterday when I got my 10.1 GB Ultra ATA/DMA drive from PC Warehouse. The drive was $199
   and the card was $99. I reformatted the drive with Apple Drive Setup - and installed MacOS 8.5 on it and it booted just fine."

Thanks,

glen_stewart@associate.com

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Re: TurboMax PCI host adapter (Ultra-ATA)

[Brian C Burke]

The TurboMax card is not detected at start up with LinuxPPC 2.2.1. With the
MacOS the card is seen as a scsi card and apple drive setup can partition
and initialize disks attached to the card, as can FWB Hard Disk ToolKit
using its generic scsi drivers. I have a pair of 17.2G maxtors attached to
the card each on its own cable, configured as a master drive. Oddly enough
on my setup (rev1 G3) pdisk only sees the first, scsi1.0, failing to see
scsi1.1.
 I wish a I knew enough to attempt setting up a driver as these drives are
cheap (whole setup including tax and shipping $730) and fast.

Brian


>Date: 8 Apr 1999 17:38:50 -0000
>From: LinuxPPC-Dev@associate.com
>Subject: TurboMax PCI host adapter (Ultra-ATA)
>
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone verify that this card works with LinuxPPC?  Comparing the price
>of an Ultra ATA drive with SCSI makes this
>method look really attractive at the 17Gb drive size.  They confirm that
>it'll run under MacOS on a 7500, at least.
>
>Noel Suarez found an inexpensive way to add 10GB of high-speed storage to
>his Power Mac G3/233:
>
>   "I saw the ad from ProMax for an Ultra ATA/DMA PCI card for the Mac.
>When I asked the sales guy on the phone a couple of
>   weeks ago if I could boot off the Ultra ATA/DMA drives attached to the
>card, he said no. I ordered it anyway. It just shipped 2
>   days ago and I installed it yesterday when I got my 10.1 GB Ultra
>ATA/DMA drive from PC Warehouse. The drive was $199
>   and the card was $99. I reformatted the drive with Apple Drive Setup -
>and installed MacOS 8.5 on it and it booted just fine."
>
>Thanks,
>
>glen_stewart@associate.com

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