On Jan 25, 2009, at 12:12 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > Ok, quick question... I have a nice 500gb sata 3.5 that needs to live > in my MDD 1.25 or 1.42. What card do I need to make this work? a sata > controller card and? how do the drives get power? is there a "kit" > that I could get for this? Thanks, Jeff
It'll be cheaper to sell the SATA HD get a 500 GB PATA HD and use it instead. To use the SATA HD you'll need an SATA PCI controller card that's bootable (I'm assuming you mean to boot from it?). If you don't need to boot, and don't need OS 9, there are inexpensive SATA cards that aren't bootable, most using a Silicon Image chipset and special OS X extensions to enable the card (hence, not bootable). You can get a non-bootable card for $15-20 shipped on eBay. OWC has bootable Firmtek cards for about $70-75 shipped, but again, the PATA HD is cheaper (after you sell the SATA) and just as fast. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
