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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Topic started by: macStuff on May 12, 2019, 12:06:48 PM

Title: anyone heard of a initio esata card that supplies serial ports?
Post by: macStuff on May 12, 2019, 12:06:48 PM

 even if this thing doesnt provide os9 BOOT it still looks interesting?
anyone seen this before? are those actual SERIAL PORTS?

Title: Re: anyone heard of a initio esata card that supplies serial ports?
Post by: refinery on May 12, 2019, 04:01:13 PM

where on earth did you find that??

Title: Re: anyone heard of a initio esata card that supplies serial ports?
Post by: macStuff on May 12, 2019, 05:38:15 PM

saw it on ebay
lol - nice scsi tag line :)

not sure if this stuff matches the card above :
http://www.initio.com/Html/INIC-1623TA2.asp
Initio INIC-1623TA2
www.initio.com/Html/Doc/INIC-1623TA2%20PCI%20to%20SATA%20Host%20Adapter%20Product%20Brief.pdf

not sure what im lookin at here ;o
but that document does mention MacOS

Title: Re: anyone heard of a initio esata card that supplies serial ports?
Post by: Roman78 on May 14, 2019, 03:49:22 AM

Those are power connectors for the External SATA.

https://sewelldirect.com/e-sata2withpowerconnectorspcicardinitioinic1623#section-specs

Title: Re: anyone heard of a initio esata card that supplies serial ports?
Post by: macStuff on May 27, 2019, 07:33:49 AM

strange they look just like serial ports, maybe the pins are in a opposite configuration?