G5 huh, nice if u had of mentioned that 1ST
Anywayz, the only SCSI card with the PCI-X connect is the ATTO PCI Express U3S card attotech.com. The card is very pricey along with being total overkill as far as SMDI is concerned. For now its the only solution on the G5, hopefully soon Adaptec will bring to market a PCI-X SCSI-2 narrow card.
Obviously, you are running Classic inside Mac OS X. Again there is no solution here really working for SCSI , like u said the OS X version of Recycle has the SMDI to hardware removed feckin class A Assholes !!!
Ok so now under OS X, u mentioned SDS, this is slow as hell, i never found anything in OS X working either. Spark in Mac OS 9x worked but i never bothered with trying it under Classic in X, and running Spark natively in X never worked either. However, DSP-Quattro has the ability to do SDS (midi sample dump), it runs under Mac OS X natively. The downside, is that the demo has this function disabled so maybe u need to email the developer an tell him your major grief situation an u need to test that SDS is working in his app under X , mention this may be the ONLY sample transfer solution to your EMU (they are nice guys btw).
http://www.i3net.it/Products/dspQuattro ... anguage=EN
While i feel your pain an frustration man, this really is some fsck'd up situation. I blame Apple again for dumping standards b4 the industry is even ready. This shit pisses me to no end.
Saying that tho I think u screwed up with your purchase man, u should have done your research, u would have learned all this b4 u shelled out the $$ for the G5. U would have been better to have bought a 1.25 Ghz G4, since its the last machine that can boot Mac OS 9x and also has regular PCI slots for any SCSI card. These are very inexpensive machines, fast an they would have been a better workable solution from now until the G5 and SCSI card situation is worked out.
ez man