In a message dated 4/19/05 11:45:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >On Apr 18, 2005, at 11:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> In a message dated 4/18/05 6:23:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> << I've been booting all my Beige G3's (a DT & a MT) from PCI firewire >> ports and external HD's using XPF. I recently bought a Sonnet ATA66 >> card that any attached drives as SCSI. I thought I could simply move >my >> external firewire HD to the internal ATA66 card, but it isn't >> recognized. The Sonnet .pdf manual says that any HD must be initialized >> on the Sonnet card. Is this true? If so, what a hassle. I may just sell >> the card and stick with firewire if this is the case. >> >> >> Acard ATA/IDE pci controller card is same, sees drive as scsi, >> and requires drives be initialized on it to be seen. I believe this >> is pretty standard. I copied data to those drives from drives >> on stock internal IDE bus after I initialized via Acard. >> > >This isn't necessary with SIIG's controller, at least their 133 one. >Despite it displaying the drive as an SCSI device, I was able to >transfer a drive formatted on the native bus on my beige, and plug it >right in without a hassle. Also, I recently transferred the two drives > >I had on the card to a DA g4, again without reformatting.
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