G5 Quad PCI-E SCSI cards available

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G5 Quad PCI-E SCSI cards available

Hello,

Are there any SCSI cards, beside ATTO, which could be used in a Powermac G5 with a pci-e bus. I googled some information about LSI Logic, but the information whether or not some of those cards would work in a dual-core G5 is still not clear to me. I would prefer to buy a used card, and perhaps there are some PC cards for the new PCIE bus that would work too. Thanks for any information you could provide.

best regards,
Markus

Powermac G5 quad Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 25, 2006 4:23 AM

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Mar 25, 2006 4:50 AM in response to Markus Waldorf

Hello:
I needed a SCSI connection between my dual core 2.3 G5 and an Epson 1600 and Polaroid 4000 scanner. The SCSI card problem with PCIexpress is a headache. To bypass high costs of the cards, I tried a Ratoc firewire/ultra scsi converter (FR1SX) and find it works perfectly at joining my SCSI scanners to my G5 firewire. This has been a boon to eliminate PCI express SCSI cards and other problems.
best, nrb

G4 dual 500, G5 dual core 2.3 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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