PCMCIA to SCSI (68 pin HD)

What PCMCIA to SCSI adapter is "the one to get"?
I'm thinking of using a Powerbook to run a remote audio recording studio (MOTU firewire interface with DP software). I require ultrawide SCSI (68 pin HD connector) for the hard drives (ATA is unacceptable - no exceptions. We're talking large track counts here; 36 tracks at 24bit 96k for example).
I also welcome comments from anyone who has put together a similar system.
Thanks.

Hi, Jim. I don't know of any faster cards, though they might exist. The "Slim SCSI 1480" is Ultra SCSI (20MB/sec), not SCSI II (10MB/sec). Adaptec used to advertise it as Mac-compatible, and I talked to a number of people who used it in Powerbook G3s that lacked SCSI ports, but that was before the early versions of OS X abandoned support for SCSI. The "PowerDomain 1480" is only SCSI II. It's specifically advertised by Adaptec as Mac OS 8.6 and 9.x-compatible, but its spec sheet says nothing about OS X — I don't know why not. Back when I was using a PBG3 and frequenting the PBG3 Discussions area, Adaptec didn't offer these two different 1480 models; there was only the Slim SCSI 1480. That's why I suggested calling and asking Adaptec about SCSI support for the faster card in Panther and Tiger. The market for SCSI peripherals to be used with Mac laptops must now be very tiny indeed, so I doubt that web pages or spec sheets for these cards are being updated frequently to reflect the slowly improving support for SCSI in recent versions of OS X.
Ratoc also makes a Cardbus adapter, but it too is Ultra SCSI, not Ultra Wide SCSI. You would, of course, have a much wider range of SCSI adapter options with a desktop Mac instead of a Powerbook. A laptop may not be the best base for your system.

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