On Oct 25, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Dan wrote:
>> 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? > > SATA *can be* hot swappable, IF the controller and driver support it. > Not all do. On the later favors of motherboards, hot swap is built into the design. The Initio-based cards for G3 and G4 Macs support hot swap. These are found under the LaCie and OWC brand names. The Silicon Image (Si I) cards for Express-34 equipped 'Books support hot swap. These are found under many names. The Kouwell BT-5652E3 is Si I 3132, just about the best PCI-E chip there is. Has MacOS driver support, too, from Si I. The same chip set is available in a PCI-E card (1 lane), but most of those are pre-programmed for RAID applications, and won't work as conventional eSATA ports. Some, but not all, can be FLASHed to conventional eSATA. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
