On Oct 27, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> I use an Ahard Acard UltraIDE RAID card in my B&W G3. This is a > Mac-specific card with Mac firmware. It works nicely and is bootable > under both OS 9 and OS X. AHARDs come in a Mac-specific model and a PC-specific model. > I don't know how much Mac SATA cards are now, but probably, for the > age and spec of a Beige, you could buy an old slow G4 on eBay for > around the same cost as a SATA host adaptor. I'm seeing them going for > under £30 these days and they're cheaper in the US. I'd expect well > under $50. The Initio-based SATA cards (LaCie and OWC both use the Initio chip set) are generic in that these can be used on a G4 Mac or a PC, but these won't work on Intel-based Macs, for some reason. The Initio-based SATA cards should work on early G3s, too. Firmtek has its own chip set for SATA. I believe these are all 1.5 MB/sec. The PCI-E SATA cards are 3 MB/sec, but these come in a RAID or a non- RAID version. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
