Hi All,

Has anyone successfully run an Atto UL5D SCSI card and a G-Tech esata card in the same system? I'm trying to get a Mac Pro 2.66 running MC 3.0.1 on Tiger to start with both these cards. It fails to get past the Apple start up with a message telling me that I have restart the computer.

I got it to start up once and it asked me to reset the lane allocations for the 3 cards, UL5D, G-Tech esata and Nvidea Geforce 7300 GT, (I'd removed my external firewire card at this point to see if that helped). When it restarted, however, it failed at start up again.

If anyone has both cards in the same machine let me know which slots you're using and how they're configured.

Thanks,

I've done fiber and SCSI and fiber and SAS but no SCSI and eSATA. I''m betting on

SCSI in your top slot

eSATA

Empty

Video - of course

set the "lanes" to option 2.

Where are they now? And is your firmware up to date in that SCSI card?

I eventually got the machine to stay up with both cards, after moving back and forth between various slots. The G-Tech manual demanded slot 4 for the esata card, so my present arrangement is:

eSata slot 4

SCSI slot 3

Empty slot 2

Video card slot 1

I've chosen lane option 2 which gives X4 to the esata and SCSI and x16 to the video card. I really should put my outboard firewire card back into slot 2 but this will only be served by x1 lane in the present set up. Is this enough? I try to avoid using fw to be honest but there may be sometime where I'm forced to and I guess i should have the card available.

I have no idea why the system refused to start so many times, could it merely have been a loose card? I'm scared to put the fw card back in slot 2 in case I'm back to square one with a machine that won't start, but I can't see how this card could conflict with the other two.

Thanks.