So far, none of the cards I had from the g4 fit the g5...not the scsi, not the 4 port firewire, not the 4 port usb, not even the ata cards. The spacing of the 'notch' in the card about a half inch out from the back of the card is wrong on all of them. On some the spacing of the 'notch' in the other end of the card is also wrong.
I'd still like to add internal drives...have one of the brackets that were made for a while to hold drives vertically at the front of the case in front of the fans...but haven't been able to find a controller card that fits...for either ata or sata drives. It would be nice to have a card that has both internal and external ports...but I seem to be dreaming...or at least have not found such that work so far. So what I need is pci-x and not pci-e? On 12/8/08 1:47 AM, "Kris Tilford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 7, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Donald Hall wrote: > >> Actually, the dual 2.7 has PCI-X slots. PCI-X is mostly backward >> compatible to PCI. >> >> Jack is most likely referring to the slot keying. Around the MDD era, >> the old 5 volt PCI cards started being phased out in favor of 3.3v or >> universal PCI cards. To make sure that a card would still work, the >> slots keying was changed so you couldn't insert an incompatible card. > > You are correct, and off-list I misinformed Jack about a PCI-X card > for his 2.7 GHz G5, so apologies to Jack, and YES, your 2.7 can use > PCI-X cards. It's strange to me how the 2.7 GHz is an earlier model > than the later 2.0, 2.3 and 2.5 GHz versions that use PCIe. I consider > PCIe to be an upgrade from PCI-X, much the way that AGP video was an > upgrade from PCI video in the earlier PowerMac G4. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
