apple moving to x86

[David Kelly]

On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote:

> Adaptec doesn't have the worlds best reputation for allowing people  
> to write drivers (or even for writing non-buggy firmware) but I  
> seem to recall that the Macs that ship with SCSI support use an  
> Adaptec chipset...  oh, on looking, it appears that the IIci uses  
> an NCR SCSI chipset... specifically, the 5380 which was found on  
> many commodity PC SCSI cards too.

I don't recall Apple ever using Adaptec chips. Their first ethernet  
card (NuBus) was done by 3-Com and so marked. Recently (several years  
ago) Apple offered a high end Atto SCSI card with new systems. Power  
Computing was the one who shipped possibly the world's first Adaptec  
2930's, years before a much improved 2930 hit the boxed shelves.

IIRC the first PowerPC Macs had two SCSI busses, one was NCR and the  
other was a combo AMD Lance ethernet and SCSI.

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