G4 and PCI-SCSI card

I recently bought a second hand PowerMac G4 with an adaptec 2903B scsi PCI card in it. I reinstalled it with OS10.3.9. I have not been able to detect any SCSI devices yet. Am I missing a driver ? No drivers for the 2903B on the Adaptec website... I'm using it with OSX, but would like to use it also in OS9 with the MESA software for my AKAI S2000 sampler.

Adaptec or who ever made the RAID software would have the driver for OS 9. I don't have Classic/OS9 installed on my computer. I don't rember whether all drivers appear in the extensions folder.
I'll check with Adaptec, myself, and let you know.
Are you sure the card is a 2903 and not a 2930?
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/scsi/2900/AVA-2902E/
http://adaptec-tic.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/adaptectic.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_sid=qK3iQ2pi&p_lva=&p_li=&p_new_search=1&p_src h=1&p_sort_by=&p_gridsort=&p_row_cnt=25&p_prods=0&p_cats=0&p_pv=&p_cv=&p_search_ text=MacOS9&p_search_type=answers.search_nl&p_nav=foot&p_page_head=1&p_pagefoot=1
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=PWH&sa=X&oi=spell&resn um=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=raiddrivers+mac+OS9&spell=1
Sorry for the questions.
Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics) Dual 500 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB Ram, Nvidia FX5500 agp card EMBO Tech 8800 eliminator.

Similar Messages

Is there example code for using Ni488 and PCI-GPIB card in non controller mode?

Is there example code for using Ni488 and PCI-GPIB card in non controller mode?

cymrieg,
Your code looks good to me. What is the problem? What happens when it fails? What is the IBSTA value on the controller, and at what point in the code does it stop? What is the IBSTA value on the slave, and at what point does it stop?
One thing is that you might not want to call IBCLR() in a loop on the device. At the beginning of the program is fine...This will send a clear command to the device and will clear out any LACS and TACS bits that might be set. Also your IBDEV call shouldn't be in a loop.
Hope this helps, but let me know if you need more information.
Scott B.
GPIB Software
National Instruments

G-4 tower, PPC,10.4.11 PCI SCSI card install

G-4 tower, PPC,10.4.11 and Classic 9.2. I have been trying to install a new Adptec SCSI card. From what I understand, this card should work??
I keep getting the "grey vail". The fix is to remove the PCI card.I have tried USB and network PCI cards. Both create NO problems. Is there a good reason I cannot install the SCSI PCI card??

These look pretty old to me...
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/downloads/macos/macos_x/productid=ava-2906&dn=adapt ec+scsi+card+2906.html

PCI scsi card for ScanMaker 4

Hi every one!
I have G4 running Mac OX 10.4, I'm able to scan from the ScanMaker 4 in Mac OS 9 into PhotoShop or using the scanning software, however if I try to scan in OS X there is not communication between the computer and the scanner.
I have installed a " PCI Adaptec SCSI" card ( which work fine in OS 9x), so far no luck in Microtek web site or Adaptec trying to down load a driver, a patch or something that allow me get my scanner to work in OS X.
Any help on this will greatly appreciated!
Regards!

joem,
I have had the same problem with an Epson SCSI scanner. Either there is no driver or it does not work. The solution is shareware "VueScan" which worked presto. You can download a free trial version before buying.
Hans

Tape drive and pci-x card with Solaris 10 on VMWare environment

I have a Sun X4170 server (x84_64) running VMWare ESXi 4.0. On it I have two VM guests- my production file server running Solaris 10 U7 and a test file server running Solaris 10 U9.
The X4170 has a PCI-X LSI Logic dual external U320 parallel scsi card. I have a tape drive + auto loader cabled to the X4170. It is a Quantum branded autoloader but I believe the tape drive itself is HP. The autoloader+tape drive share a single SCSI ID (6) but have separate LUNS.
I have two choices for making this system accessible to the OS:
- Virtualize the tape drive and loader individually.
- In VMWare, enable the scsi card as a pass through device. The SCSI card is then added as PCI device to the virtual machine (actually two devices since it is a dual scsi card.)
I had virtualized a single-drive tape drives with Vmware in the past.
However, when I tried I virtualize tape drive and loader, Solaris complained about the scsi id’s being invalid. I don’t think it likes two devices with a single scsi ID. Also, I think I need the backup software to see the REAL tape drive and autoloader (for inventory, changing tapes etc)
On the Solaris 10 U9 “Test” machine:
# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c1 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c1::dsk/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi scsi-bus connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi::rmt/0 tape connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi::scsi/changer/c2t6d med-changer connected configured unknown
mpt2:scsi scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
cfgadm: Configuration administration not supported: Error: hotplug service is pr
obably not running, please use 'svcadm enable hotplug' to enable the service. Se
e cfgadm_shp(1M) for more details.
bash-3.00# mt status
/dev/rmt/0n: no tape loaded or drive offline
bash-3.00#
# svcadm enable hotplug
# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c1 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c1::dsk/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi scsi-bus connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi::rmt/0 tape connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi::scsi/changer/c2t6d med-changer connected configured unknown
mpt2:scsi scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
pcie160 scsi/hp connected configured ok
pcie161 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
pcie162 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
On the Solaris 10 U7 “Production” machine:
The hotplug service did not exist until I installed the following patches
142934-02 SunOS 5.10_x86: failsafe patch
142910-17 SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch
144489-02 SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch
# svcadm enable hotplug
# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c1 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c1::dsk/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
c1::scsi/direct/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
c4 scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
c5 scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
pcie160 scsi/hp connected configured ok
Running “devfsadm –v “ does not change anything
Any ideas? Maybe a need to update the MPT driver or is that dangerous?
Thanks

Actually, updating the kernel patches (and enabling hot plug service) did solve the problem. At some point during between testing the system before and after patching, the tape drive got turned off. Since the system patching was being done remotely it was not immediately obvious that the tape drive was off.

Problem with KTV3 and PCI USB card extension from QTEC type 13068

Hello all,
I have been trying to make work a PCI USB card extension from QTEC type 13068. This card allows to give 4 USB ports more.
My problem is that oinly 2 ports are working and WINXP SP1 is saying that there are not enough ressources for all the PCI functions. However there is enough free IRQ. Even using this card alone on the mainboard give the same error.
I am using a KTV3 (MS-6712 VER:1.0A) and I have no idear why this is happening. Could it be a bad interaction between the BIOS and the card? wall Or WIN XP? angryfire
All comments and ideas to try are welcome especially from those who have this QTEC card.
Regards.

What operating system are you using? The card requires SP1 for XP and SP4 for 2000. If you have these, try to uninstal the cardl and let Windows reinstall the card on start-up.

MSI K7D / K7D-L and tekram SCSI card

Anyone get the above combination to work?
I've tried a Tekram DC390F in a K7D Master and a DC395UW in a K7D-L Maater and both times I've had to remove the Tekram BIOS chip to get the motherboards to boot.
Anyone know if the Award BIOS on the K7D/-L Master contains code to control a SCSI card (in particular NCR or Symbios chip based cards)
Cheers
phich

this is very interesting. i have a Tekram DC-390U3W in my main workstation and bought an LSI U160 for this server. When I realized the Tekram could run at 66mhz, I thought I'd move it over to the server and use the LSI in my Abit board instead.
COULD NOT, for ANYTHING, get the Tekram to work in my new K7D Master. Interestingly, the LSI works just fine, but the weird thing is, they have the EXACT same controller chip - 53C1010. Doesn't make any sense to me, but finally I just gave up.
if you made any headway on this, I'd love to hear about it.
rb
Charlotte, NC

Looking for PCI SCSI card for G5

I've just learned my old SCSI PCI card (5 volt) from my G4 won't work in the G5 (3.3 volt PCI slot).
I'm looking for a 50-pin SCSI PCI card, 3.3v, that will work in a G5 & with OSX ... any suggestions? Thanks.

I'm interested to know if this is the plain old Adaptec 29160N or the Adaptec PowerDomain 29160N. I made a similar upgrade 4 years ago and I had an identical problem. I never got my old scanner to work. The ratoc SCSI--Firewire bridge didn't support multiprocessors, and the Adaptec PowerDomain card was prohibitively expensive. Due to the lack of updated drivers for the scanner, VueScan was necessary in either case, if remember properly.

10.4.3 and PCI USB Cards

I have been using a Macally 5 USB port PCI card with my PM G5. It has never given me problems connecting to USB peripherals, but like many others, it did not allow the computer to sleep properly.
When 10.4.3 came out, I noticed things changed a little. Now the computer will go into deep sleep on its own after the time I set in Energy Saver, which it never used to do. That is good, but it also now locks up when I put it to sleep or sometimes won't wake up. These problems don't happen evertime, but usually every other day or so.
I have read somewhere that the Sonnett cards work well and don't interfere with the G5's ability to sleep with 10.4.3 installed. I am ready to get rid of my Macally card (already pulled it out), and replace it. Can anyone confirm the report I read about about the Sonnett cards or recommend another one that works well?
Thanks for the help.

Bob, I have a Sonnet Allegro USB II card in my G5. If I let the computer go to sleep on it's own it sometimes will not wake up forcing a hard restart. If I log out and then put the computer to sleep all is well. That little work around is a bit much for some, but for me it's fine as I don't leave my computer logged on when I'm not at my desk.
I'm not aware after reading many posts here that there is a card that doesn't have some issue with G5's.
Hope this helps.....

FW 800 and PCIe firwire card/ It works

Short story I could not get my external FW800 WD my book to work on the Mac pro system. i just installed a Sunix which I am betting the same as the Aaxeon card orderd from OWC 1 AAXFWB3414 Aaxeon FireWire 400/800 4 Port PCI Express Controller Card $107.99
Well i installed it and my My book is now working and my other 400 My book going through the PCI card. Which now free's up the system firewire bus except for the Cinema display and now the front 400 and 800 are working. Honestly i believe there is a under powered firewire bus issue on these. Now there has been talk of a speed issue with these, maybe there is have not tested that but just happy everything is working as it should
Well just copyied the same folder to the 800 aand than to the 400 and the 800 is faster. Thought I would pass this on to Firewire issues some folks are having

They do have there own AC power yes . there 500gb WD 7200 16mb cache IDE drives i believe. yes i would like to test the speed on these just to see if it is going full bore or not. They seem very fast. I have had just to much trouble with the Mac Pro bus speed or something was off just not sure.
On a side note . i ordered Techtool Pro and my main drive had 454 fragmented files and i did optimize the whole system and ran drive tests before i installed the card. Everything seems to be working very well now. Fingers crossed

K9A2 Platinum Cannot Use RAID and PCI IDE card [SOLVED]

Hello,
I am trying to do the following set-up on my K9A2 Platinum, using a Phenom 9600 processor:
- 2xSATA2 250GB Seagate drives on Promise T3 SATA controller (to be used as RAID 1 devices)
- 1xSATA DVD-RW on Sb600
- 2xIDE DVD-RW on onboard IDE
- One PCI HiPoint RocketRAID ATA100 card (operating in IDE mode) on PCI slot 2 with 1xIDE 40GB hard disk (my Linux partition)
On the BIOS I have enabled the Extra RAID function, in order to enable Promise to work as RAID.
The system POSTs as follows:
- Initial detection (CPU, RAM e.tc)
- RocketRAID gets initialized and detects the IDE disk attached (40GB)
- Promise RAID tries to detect the disks (the RAID array) and the whole system hangs.
I've tried to relocate the two SATA hard disks to the SB600 controller (SATA 1&2 ports), but the same thing happens (after changing the BIOS to disable extra RAID function and enable RAID mode on onboard SATA SB600). The only way to POST the machine, is to remove the RocketRAID PCI card, but this way I can no longer boot my Linux disk.
Using BIOS 1.2 and 1.3beta 2 (sent to me by MSI support).
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the replies.
Now, I'm going to surprise you: I managed to make both cards (the Promise and HighPoint) work together! Read how...
Somehow, I got the impression that the problems I had were either caused by the BIOS or the hard disks (the SATA ones). I flashed the motherboard back to the official 1.2, doing a complete BIOS reset (removed the battery) and tried again without the RocketRAID card installed. This time, the Promise BIOS (which btw is an earlier version from the one the 1.3b2 BIOS had) reported that the one SATA drive was malfunctioning (and it was a sealed brand-new Seagate). Removed the drive, installed it on SB600 and SeaTools indeed reported that it was failing (it didn't manage to pass even the quick test...).
Now I was curious: could it be that this - together with the beta BIOS - was the cause of my problems? I installed the other SATA disk to Promise T3 (the red socket) and the controller detected it, but all I could do is to set it up as a RAID 0 array (which pretty much does nothing). Next, I installed the RocketRAID also together with the IDE Linux disk and the system detected both disks; I can boot Linux fine and enter both the RocketRAID BIOS and Promise T3 BIOS. I can delete and recreate the array in Promise T3 as I please, but due to the fact that I only have one SATA disk now, I get limited options (RAID 0 and JBOD).
Is it safe to assume that since the Promise BIOS is working with the RocketRAID installed, that my SATA RAID controller is working?
Tomorrow, I shall return the SATA drive to the store I bought it and get a replacement, so that I can set up my RAID 1.
The plan is to have Linux boot from the IDE (I've never managed to set up a Linux disk to boot from RAID) where Windows Server 2003 will boot from RAID.
Will keep you posted about the progress I make.
BTW Bas, I'm sorry I couldn't make out much of your brainstorming
Regarding the Promise controller: the board has a Promise chip right above the SATA ports, which has the number 42819 on it. I can also verify that both SB600 RAID and Promise T3 RAID have EXACTLY the same BIOS menu interface (the only differences are the texts "ATi SB600" and "Promise T3" on the menus, plus that the SB600 has also an option to securely erase the drives which Promise does not have). Are you suggesting that the SB600 RAID is actually the Promise T3? I do not know if it would be possible to have BOTH RAID controllers (SB600 and T3) working at the same time (I do not have enough disks to try...).

Pci scsi card

can i put in a scsdi card in a hp touchsmart 520pc

Hi,
What is the model of your 520 ? The following link shows one of them:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c03023117
It does not have spare PCI/PCIe slot therefore you can't put PCI/PCIe card on it.
Regards.
BH
**Click the KUDOS thumb up on the left to say 'Thanks'**
Make it easier for other people to find solutions by marking a Reply 'Accept as Solution' if it solves your problem.

I have installed successfuly Nidaq692.exe and LV5Fra.exe drivers for LabVIEW AND PCI-6110 card

Unfortunately, I didn't find the data acquisition functions to acquire data from PCI-6110 through LabVIEW.
How can I do to find VI data acquisition in Labview.

Is the Data Acquisition palette completely missing? It may be that if you initially installed LabVIEW without NI-DAQ, that none of the VI's got installed. You may have to reinstall at least part of LabVIEW.

D1000 and SCSI Card

I have a D1000. It used to plug in to my 220r but now I want to use it with Fedora Core 1. Will this PCI SCSI Card
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/techspecs.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=%2FProduct%2FAHA-2944UW&prodkey=AHA-2944UW
Work with the D1000? Educated guesses would help :)

Hello,
the AHA-2944 is indeed HVD SCSI, but there are no drivers available for Solaris. Get the SYM22802 either from Sun or Symbios Logic.
Michael

Installing SCSI card

Hi,
I've recently purchased an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card for use in a G4 running OS X 10.1. My knowledge of SCSI is not the greatest so I have a few problems I hope someone could help me with.
I have installed the card as per the Adaptec instructions, however I am unsure as to whether I need to use an internal scsi cable to connect the SCSI card to another part of the computer. The Adaptec instructions mention an internal 50 pin SCSI cable, but I am unsure of whether this is only used when connecting up internal SCSI devices (CD drives/Optical Drives etc). At the moment, the only other PCI slot used in the G4 is a card for a monitor.
When I enter Apple System Profiler it is aware that there is a card in the PCI slot, but it does not name it as Adaptec (at the moment it simply says "name: not available"). Also, when I connect a device to the SCSI card - ASP does recognise it is connected (I have attached both a Sony Optical Drive and Apple CD Drive). However, when I place some media in these drives they do not mount in OS X, and disk utility does not show either drive.
As I said, I haven't the greatest understanding of SCSI, so I may be making a stupid mistake somewhere along the line.
As a bit of background, I need to get some information off of a batch of Magneto Optical disks, and all the drives I have are SCSI, therefore I need to get this SCSI card up and running if possible
Thanks
Jack
Mac OS X (10.1.x)

Hi Jack-
Sorry to hear the saga continues. I have just started rechecking the Adaptec help site, and the following is the response to a "not reported" (my search), or "device name not available" (Adaptec's phrasing):
Q: SCSI Disk Utilities in SCSI Select or BIOS scan reports 'device name not available' for all devices.
This information applies to the following product(s):
- 2902, 2906 series, 2910 series, 2920 series, 2930 series, 2940 series, 3940 series, 2940U2W series, 2930U2 series, 3950U2 series - PCI SCSI Card(s)
This information applies to the following Operating System(s):
- All / PC
A: The SCSI Host Adapter is not in a bus mastering PCI slot.
Move the SCSI Host Adapter to a different PCI slot.
The SCSI Host Adapter has an IRQ conflict with another device in the system. The resources for the PCI SCSI Host Adapter are assigned by the motherboards CMOS setup. Double check with your computer manufacturer or motherboard manual for setting up resources for PCI slots.
So, though I will continue the search, I need some more information from you.
What, precisely, is your model and cpu?
What other PCI devices do you have installed (if any)?
Also, in spite of the fact that the card is not reporting (though detected), as far as testing function goes, please attempt connection of one of your SCSI devices. Please read the following:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58245
Make note of the ID configuration.
Be sure to properly terminate your device.
Connect only with system "off". (SCSI device power off as well).
After connected, turn "on" the SCSI device BEFORE powering up the computer.
After you get back with me regarding your Mac's vital stat's, I can then check for more system specific information.
One last note- In my G4 Sawtooth and G4 Gigabit Ethernet, the SCSI card is in slot "D"- the PCI slot closest to the internal hard drives.
G4 AGP(450)Sawtooth Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2ghzPPC,1.62gbSDRAM, ATI9800, DVR-109,(IntHD)120&160,LaCie160,23"Cinema Display

G4 and PCI-SCSI card

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for