On Jan 20, 2009, at 9:38 AM, PeterH wrote: > Matters little, now, as everybody and his/her uncle can do SATA, and > Silicon Image has what is perhaps the best line of SATA products. > > FirmTek was left in the dust.
The Silicon Image PCI-X SATA card wasn't bootable in a PowerMac G5, but the Firmtek SeriTek PCI-X SATA card has been rock solid perfect for me, and is also bootable. Further, the FirmTek support has been both quick and accurate, as it should be for a card that cost 4x what the Silicon Image card cost. Someone needs to extract the XPostFacto Helper Disk code and make a stand-alone "Boot Helper" application that enables all unbootable cards to boot by synchronizing the boot parameters and using an internal HD to start the boot process and then transfer the boot to the unbootable device after the synchronized OS X has initiated the card. This would be a Godsend for using cheap cards to boot from. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
