Hi all, A (hopefully simple) question - rooted in my previous SCSI paranoia.
I have, in the 90's, seen mobo's fried due to the switching on/off of attached SCSI devices whilst the Mac was running. I was almost obsessive about the sequence - power up SCSI device, power up Mac, and in reverse, power down Mac, then switch off SCSI device. Fast forward to 2008, and I am (finally) the proud owner of an early 2005 dual 2Ghz G5 tower. I've replaced the internal drive with a 320GB Seagate, and have added another for storage and have installed Tiger (for "Classic" use) onto drive #2. From my old G4, I have retained the SIIG-3114-R1 4-port internal SATA card which is now in the G5 but not as yet connected to anything. I have finally sourced an eSATA quad-port internal to external adapter PCI bracket. to run additional external drives in cases with eSATA connectivity. My basic question is do I still have to follow the old SCSI power-on sequence, or is the G5's mobo & SIIG PCI SATA card OK if the external drives are powered on/off whilst the G5 is running? Logic tells me they should be, as the SATA cables carry only data and not power (the external drive cases are powered through their own mains adapters). G5 dual 2GHz, 10.5.5 on drive 1, 10.4.11 (for Classic support) on drive 2. 2.5GB RAM (to be upgraded soon to the max. of 4GB) Also, About this Mac shows the G5 has a Radeon 9650 Pro with 256MB. Yet running Apple Hardware Test (from the G5's original disks) shows 64MB video RAM in system profile. They can't both be right... TIA, Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
