Not disparaging your experience with them, but I've never had a bad purchase or tech help call with them--always been right on the mark. Of course Murphy's Law always plays into statements like that, I suppose. :)
Howard On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Koszarsky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
