I recently purchased a 2610SA sata raid controller. Its a 64bit PCI card. I also have a b&w 400mhz G3 that I got from work because it has 3 64-bit PCI slots. I was wondering if there was any way at all to use aforementioned raid card in the G3. Its running OSX. I'm not sure what version as its password locked and I'm in the middle of tracking down an install disk to boot up and remove the password.
This brings up a few other questions. Firstly, I know you have to hold C to boot off of a CD, however, does it have to be an Apple brand keyboard? I only have USB keyboards built for windows (windows key on them), is that an issue?
Additionally, if it was not possible to use the raid controller with OSX, would it be possible to use it if I installed some flavor of Linux on it?
I don't know much about Macs and thought this would be a great opportunity to not only learn more about them, but to also get a nice file server running on my network.
This brings up a few other questions. Firstly, I know you have to hold C to boot off of a CD, however, does it have to be an Apple brand keyboard? I only have USB keyboards built for windows (windows key on them), is that an issue?
Additionally, if it was not possible to use the raid controller with OSX, would it be possible to use it if I installed some flavor of Linux on it?
I don't know much about Macs and thought this would be a great opportunity to not only learn more about them, but to also get a nice file server running on my network.