Adding Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI card to G4 350

Hi all, i'm sorting trough some old parts and found my old Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI card from my PC, and thought that is might speed my (amazingly responsive) G4 350. Googling around i see there are drivers for this model for FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Will the Mac OS X 10.2.8 support this SCSI card oob, or should i install drivers, and what flavour (FreeBSD/NetBSD) to use?
thanks
Joris

Hi-
SCSI support in 10.2+ was improved over earlier OS X, but still lacking. Use of a driver could possibly be necessary.
As for which one, all I could see were Windows or Linux versions....use of a Mac specific driver from another manufacturer could also be a possibility.
I would try the card without drivers, and hope the native drivers will allow the card to be seen/function.

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Message was edited by: Jakob Richardt
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