12-11-2007, 10:57 PM
[quote incognegro]Not sure if the ACARD would help, though it does attach to the SCSI chain rather than the IDE bus, which should (in theory) take some load off the CPU, since IDE is handled by the CPU and SCSI by the controller.
Specs for the bridge say "SCSI host interface synchronous transfer rate up to 20 MB/sec."
Unless there is a faster SCSI bus supplied by a PCI card, there would be no advantage to using an IDE-SCSI bridge. The internal SCSI bus on the logic board of a Beige G3 is just 5 MB/s, the ATA bus from it is 16 MB/s. If you can find an ATA33 or ATA66 card that will work in a Beige, that would be faster.
Specs for the bridge say "SCSI host interface synchronous transfer rate up to 20 MB/sec."
Unless there is a faster SCSI bus supplied by a PCI card, there would be no advantage to using an IDE-SCSI bridge. The internal SCSI bus on the logic board of a Beige G3 is just 5 MB/s, the ATA bus from it is 16 MB/s. If you can find an ATA33 or ATA66 card that will work in a Beige, that would be faster.