---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives Date: Sonntag 25 Oktober 2009N From: yawg <[email protected]> To: "G-Group" <[email protected]>
> Hi, > > I can boot from my big SATA drives with the adapters perfectly. > > Regards, Jörg. So, yawg is Jörg... Hello! With the adapters/converters, to connect a SATA drive to a IDE/ATA (PATA) controller, booting from it is not the question. It will work, because the SATA drive is seen as a regular IDE/ATA drive by the hardware. With a SATA PCI card, that provides the system with a number of (additional) SATA ports - so you can connect (additional) SATA drives to your computer - the problem might be that using such connected drives with an operting system might be possible, but booting from it might not be possible. E.g. You need to boot from a (native supported) IDE drive, the driver (kext in the case of Mac OS X) for accessing the additional SATA drives through the SATA PCI expansion card are then loaded, and only then accessing these additional drives is possible. This *could* be the case for standard PC SATA cards -- they *might* be supported by Mac OS X, provided the SATA chip used is supported. Advantage: standard SATA PCI expansion cards for PCs are generally cheaper than those for Macs. But since a PC version doesn't include any Open Firmware stuff, booting from connected drives *cannot* be possible. But, I guess that most SATA PCI cards support boot, otherwise it doesn't make much sense for Macs anyway. Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
