UPDATE: After well over an hour spent with OWC tech support a week ago, I ended up sending both SSD drives back to exchange them. Each person I dealt with at OWC told me something different for my systems and initial suggestions seemed to gravitate toward intel solutions even though I clearly indicated I was using PPC Macs.
I don't know why the Mercury Legacy Pro drive would not be seen by any PPC mac I tried but was visible on Intel Macs. I tried FAT, GUID, Apple Partition Map options, various other suggestions, but only the Intel would see the SSD. OWC tech support said to send the drive back. My Powerbook G4 continues to work fine with it's WD ATA drive and an older one that I tried. For my Dual G5, I bought a drive OWC recommended which was the Mercury Pro 6G. Similar results to the legacy drive BUT, the G5 would see it ONLY if it were attached in an external enclosure. Then they say I need a PCI-e card for internal use and booting. Well the Sonnet card would let me see the drive internally, great, but not boot from it, not great. Eventually, I discover there is no way to boot from the sonnet card on PPC macs, only Intel. OWC initially pointed me to Intel solutions and also said to check with Sonnet. Sonnet confirmed that I would not be able to boot from their Tempo card on a PPC mac. Finally, the latest OWC tech I dealt with said you need to use the Mercury Pro 3G to do what you want on a G5, not the 6G. I'm hoping the new/different/correct SSDs will work for my Macs. So far, my OWC experience has been a very frustrating one. Especially since I asked specific questions about compatibility before purchasing. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Books" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
