First post, by luckybob
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First off, I got this little guy in an ebay lot auction for a song. Even if this did not work, the mac > pc video adapters were worth it. It is the Entrega U1-SC25 This company was bought out by xircom, and then intel. Intel is AWESOME for having drivers, and still has them on their site, even though it took a bit of digging to get them.
Works just fine! drivers exist for 9x and 2000. but the 2k drivers work fine in xp. I fired up m win98 in a virtural box on my win7 machine, passed the usb directly to the vm, and it worked fine there too. It was painless as can be.
Performance is... Exactly what you would expect from a USB 1.1 device. I did not have a external drive enclosure handy, so I improvised a setup:
I did find out a few quirks with the device.
1. order is important. connect everything, power the drives, then plug the usb in.
2. supports cd and hard drives just fine. even multiples. I would assume up to 6 devices, just like regular scsi. (I only tested 2)
3. performance is limited to usb 1.1 or at best 1.25 mb/s I did not realize just how used to usb 2/3 I had become.
4. seems buggy if you have the hard drives set to auto spin-up. Things worked better when it was off and you let the adapter spin up the drives.
5. I dont know about 68pin devices yet, I dont have the proper cable handy, I kludged the 2nd picture together and I was lucky for it to work.
6. works just like a usb-ide/sata adapter. From what I can tell you cant "scan the scsi bus" like a real card, but its really not that important.
This will fit the bill perfectly for me to image old scsi drives for my IBM machines and old macs. I dont care about speed, I'm just glad to not have to power cycle a server to use the scsi card I currently have installed.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
