On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Frank Dutra <[email protected]> wrote: > Opening up the ATA drive slots/sleds would allow me to mount > the 2 SATA drives where apple designed them to be which in theory, may be in > a spot with optimal cooling.
In order to remove either or both of your 30 & 40 GB you would need to be able to boot from your SeriTek152 SATA PCI adapter. My only experience with this is in the PC/BIOS/Windows world and ... at one point at least ... not all SATA PCI adpaters came with the necessary BIOS extensions to allow you to boot from a drive attached to them. I'd be interested to learn how things work in the Mac world. Should be easy enough to try it out and see what happens I suppose. If it turns out you are unable to boot from your SATA PCI adapter, then another possibility is to try out a SATA drive to PATA connector dongle. They seem to cost around $10 at the moment. It also appears they are sold in more of a "low profile" size now. Below are some links to some resellers who work through Amazon.com. They are very much a China commodity product though so you could find more or less the same thing from other suppliers. I haven't tried them, but think I'm going to just to see how (well) they work for me. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001JQHJSU http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002T7W1MM http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00241IT6A FWIW. I think I'm going to take a chance with one of these to see if I can extend the life of some old PATA to USB external enclosures I have. ;-) -irrational john -- 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
