You will get much faster transfer rates using a PCI card than if you try to run the drives through the USB ports. This is the card I use in a DA G4 and another one in a PPC G5: http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1v4/ It is running a striped RAID array with 3 Seagate SATA drives. Seritek cards come in a variety of internal and/or external port configurations.
On Oct 16, 6:50 am, "Simon Royal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using a PowerMac G4 'Sawtooth' as my Intel iMac died. First the internal > hard drive went then the machine went altogether. > > I am now wondering whether the hard drive is fine and the fault is something > else. The DC board looks a bit burnt. > > What's the easiest way to hook up the SATA drive to the G4. > > Can you get internal IDE to SATA converters? Can you buy PCI to SATA cards? > > Would a USB to SATA be a better idea? I have seen these quite cheap on eBay, > but they all say USB2 and my G4 only has USB1.1. Would this work albiet slow > or does it have to be USB2? > > Any ideas? > > Simon > > ---www.simonroyal.co.ukandwww.nmug.org.uk(sent using Nokia E71) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
