That is *NOT* going to work. Illirik Smirnov
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:53 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > CompUSA lists a "Masscool XWT-RC061 3 Port SATA PCI Card - 2 internal >> SATA, External SATA, 1.5Gbps Support" for $20 ---it says The board provides >> a 32bit, 33/66 MHz PCI interface on the host side, fully compliant Serial >> ATA ports on the device side to access Serial ATA mobile storage devices and >> standard media such as Hard Disk drive, floppy disk drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, >> DVD, DVD-ROM, etc... 3 Serial ATA port (two internal and one external), Has >> anyone had any luck with using this or any other generic cards on a >> quicksilver running Tiger >> > > This card appears to have significant problems in Windows, so it's very > unlikely it will perform well in OS X. It appears to use a VIA chipset. The > biggest problem I foresee on a Quicksilver is that the card won't be > bootable, you need a card with Mac boot ROM, so most PC cards that "work" > under OS X are strictly for storage only, they can't boot under normal > conditions. This card seems to be a RAID card, meaning that individual HDs > aren't useable as separate drives. I don't think this is a good solution for > a PPC Mac. > > The only cards that I'm aware of that have the PPC Mac boot ROM are the > Firmtek cards and perhaps the Acard? There are cards like that Sonnet that > are rebranded Firmtek cards, there may be others, but be sure you can boot > IF you need to boot. If you don't need to boot, Silicon Image cards have Mac > support and are very reasonably priced, but they won't boot on a PPC Mac. > > I'm not sure, there may be a way to set a boot flag in Open Firmware to > specify a non-bootable PCI card as the boot device, but this is something > I've never done, but I am aware that it's within the realm of possibility. > This would enable non-bootable cards such as the Silicon Image if possible. > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
