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System Compatibility and Performance

Systems listed here have been tested by at least one person to work with F4 and/or F4Lite BlueSCSI. If you have used a system with these, please report your compatibility and results!

Max read / write speeds are presented in the format: F4Lite X/Y, F4 X/Y where X is read speed in kilobytes per second and Y is write speed in kilobytes per second. System specific benchmarks might be attached later as images showing benchmark results. These are max speeds and will vary with SD card / SCSI disk driver / OS version / etc.

Apple Hardware

Desktops

  • 68k Macs
    • Macintosh SE
      • Not enough RAM to run benchmark, :(
    • Macintosh IIci
      • F4 1700/1300
      • F4 XCVR 1700/1250
      • F4Lite 1600/1250
      • F4Lite XCVR 1600/1250
    • Quadra 700
      • F4 1600/1600
      • F4 XCVR 1600/1600
    • LC II
      • F4 1100/880
    • LC III
      • F4 1600/1200
    • LC 475
      • F4 XCVR 1500/1600
  • PowerMacs
    • PowerMac 6100
      • F4 2000/1500 (6100 with G3 upgrade)
    • Performa 6400 (180)
      • F4 1940/1860
      • F4 XCVR 1800/1850
      • F4Lite 1880/1800
      • F4Lite XCVR 1770/1750
    • PowerMac 9600
      • F4 1500/1250
      • F4 XCVR 2048/1800 (9600 with G3 upgrade)
      • ATTO PCI SCSI card (installed in the 9600)
        • F4 XCVR 2048/2000
    • Beige G3
      • F4 1900/1800
      • F4 XCVR 1800/1800
      • F4Lite 1880/1750
      • F4Lite XCVR 1750/1750

PowerBooks

  • PowerBook 180
    • F4Lite 1260/850
  • PowerBook 140/170
    • F4Lite 1200/800
    • This PowerBook's badge says 140, but SCSI Director reports it's a 170.
  • PowerBook 5x0 Series
    • F4Lite 930/750

For Non-Apple Hardware, (such as: SGI, Sun, etc) the best bet for compatibility is the XCVR series.

SGI Hardware

Desktops

  • Indy
    • F4 XCVR Benchmark Here
    • F4 Benchmark Here
      • IRIX 6.5.22, MIPS R4600 Processor at 133MHz, F4 BlueSCSI is the only device on the bus
    • F4Lite (benchmark not reported)

Atari Hardware

Desktops

  • Atari STE TOS 2.06 via ICD AdSCSI
    • F4 XCVR 1024/900
  • Atari Mega STE via Internal SCSI Connector
    • F4 XCVR 1024/900
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