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 have to agree with Illrik and Kris here. Most PCI cards that have the Via or Ali chipset whether it is a USB2.0 , SATA or IDE card are problematical on the Mac and cause issues like sleep problems or i the case of this SATA card just won't be recognised. These cards below are known to work on a Mac and most if not all are bootable with a connected HD and correct OS version. Prices are roughly what I have gleaned from the 'net. My preference is for the SeriTek/1S2 as I have two in different G4s and they work great with attached internal drives. Others like the Sonnet Tempo SATA X4P have eSATA external ports only but those attached hard drives are bootable FirmTek SeriTek/1S2 : two port internal $64 US FirmTek SeriTek/1V4 : $ 109 US : Sonnet's Tempo™ SATA X4i 4-port : $178 US Sonnet Tempo SATA X4P PCI and PCI-X 4 port external eSata only - no internal SATA ports $ 299 US SIIG Serial ATA PCI card : $59 US 2 channel SIIG SC-SA4011 4-Channel PCI to SATA Host Adapter : $65 US Acard AEC-6280M 2-Channel PCI to IDE Host Adapter : $70 US Mac OS8.5,OS9 and OSX Acard AEC-6293M 2-Channel PCI to IDE+SATA Host Adapter : $80 US Acard AEC-6290M 2-Channel PCI to IDE+SATA Host Adapter : $80 US Stewie _________________________________________________________________ If It Exists, You'll Find it on SEEK. Australia's #1 job site http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157639755/direct/01/ -- 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
