M68KLAers,

I have had to contact ACARD, as it appears that there a compatibility issue with the ARS-2000SUP and Mac SE/30 SCSI controller...

ACARD requested me to reflash the device to lastest firmware, which I did via PC with Adaptec card and I am still having problems with Mac.

I get same message about not being able to get Drive Capacity & Phase Error even with new firmware.

I am wondering if the problem may be that the ACARD box is trying to run Ultra SE SCSI (20MB/sec) , and not falling back to slow standard SCSI (5MB/sec) that Mac SE/30 uses.... just guessing.

Unfortunately the device does not provide any jumper to force using lower speed SCSI.

Until I get resolution on this I would advise to avoid the ACARD box with SE/30. I have put a further request for solution back to ACARD after the firmware update did not fix the problem.

Cheers,

Zebity

(SE/30, Colour Classic (Mystic), Mac Pro, Mac mini(s) and MacBook Pro)