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Slow Ultra-Wide-LVD SCSI
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Binghamton, New York, USA
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I'm baffled I bought an 18.2GB Seagate U2W LVD drive and an Adaptec 2940U2W-B LVD card off of E-bay. I was very excited when it came. After I got everything in my Mac B&W G3/300 the drive sounded like an unbalanced washing machine. Then I downloaded the utilities from adabtec and reformatted the drive HFS+ The drive then worked fine. I used MacBench 5.0 to test its speed. I was actually SLOWER than the drive listed as standard for the G3/300 benchmark. I checked the adapted site for new bios but this model card is not listed.
Any suggestions?
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life is pain highness, anyone who tells you different is selling something.
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Earl Stutz
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The ide drives ARE faster than this old obsolete hot-running SCSI drive you bought on ebay, Mr. Doofus.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Binghamton, New York, USA
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Earl, Thanks for the helpful responce, but the specs on this drive and card are 80MB/sec which I believe is faster than the standard ide drive in a Beige G3. Now if anyone who knows what they are talking about could give me some advice I would greatly appreciate it.
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life is pain highness, anyone who tells you different is selling something.
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Earl Stutz
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There's a big difference between fanciful specs and actual results, dumbolini. Consider yourself a card carrying member of the "I got gypped on eBay" club, bozo.
Read all about it in the drive section of www.xlr8yourmac.com
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Pasadena, CA USA
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David,
Ignore the a s s h o l e.
The speed of that drive/SCSI card will be pretty similar to the newest IDE drives. I wouldn't be upset though, that should be fast enough to do what you want.
Plus, you can add more drives to that card and/or add external devices such as scanners.
Scott
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