>From what I can tell, Sonnet makes a great PCI SATA card. One I¹ve recently been trying to procure is the RocketRAID 1520, which is a 2-port internal PCI SATA card. I believe all or most are compatible with 10.2 and up, although that¹s just going off of memory and I don¹t have data to back that up. I¹m looking to find these inexpensively, but they¹re just not cheap. You can get them off eBay (used and new) for varying prices, starting at about $25 or so.
A message from "toothgrisle" on 12/21/09 10:33 AM, using the e-mail <ambrosiapr...@yahoo.com>, contained the following: > I'm looking for an PCI SATA controller card. > Most of the options that I've come across do not support OS 10.3, > and even the "factory page" varies on more than a few of them relative > to this. Perhaps I need to know what works, instead of what is > "supported"? > I have three Mac G4s, two Quicksilver @ 867MHz, and a Firewire 800/ > Mirrored Door Drive @ 1 GHz, that I would like to expand the storage > on with SATA drives (also to get around the HD size limits on the > Quicksilver of 128 GB). Most specs PCI and PCI-X. I'm pretty sure > neither of these models have PSI-X slots, but most of the PCI-X > controller cards seem to be backward compatible to PCI. > I am running OS X 10.3.9 in one Quicksilver and OS X 10.4.11 in > the other, and will be running OS X 10.3.9 in the Mirrored Door > Drive. Some also state that they do not support booting. Does that > mean that I will still have to keep at least one PATA drive in to boot > the OS from? And, lastly, Will I have to be careful about what kind > of SATA drives I get to install, since I don't quite understand the > SATA or SATA II complexity. > So what's a cheap solution for installing SATA drives in an QS > (pre-2002)? A PCI SATA > controller card? Which one works good.. personal experience please.. > > > Many thanks, > Robert C > P. O. Box 265 > Mount Crawford, VA -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
