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[supernova777]

well i just installed ACARD 6880M inside my powermac g3 on 8.6 os..
it took a few minutes for the os to see where the hard drive was
apple system profiler shows that it cant identify where the ATA driver is
but it works! and the speed is much much much improved..
this drive is ata-133 but was connected to the B&W g3's ATA-33 IDE connection
which is very slow.... huge improvement! i think i will backup my os (apple system restore to the rescue)
and format these ide drives and combine 2 for a raid1 or raid0 via the 6880m hardware raid dipswitch
this will take the b&W g3 450mhz to new disk speed heights
2x ATA-133 drives will ensure a closer to theoretical max speed of 133mb/s from the 6880m card
i would expect that it at least gives speeds of 70-80mb/s or maybe even 90mb/s with good fast ultradma drives
so what i have here is 100mb/s theoretical improvement over the existing disk i/o!!!!!


even better because of the small hieght of this card putting it in the leftmost pci slot
u can still use the same ide cable to connect the drive!