On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Sean Carroll wrote:
I've looked at the Sonnet Tempo HD PCI card (part # THD-MW). A
question: What does "Bootability - Not supported" mean? Not (gulp)
what seems the most obvious, that you couldn't boot up from a drive
connected to it, right? That wouldn't be good. Especially after I was
so proud of myself for picking up on the fact that I'd need cables to
go along with the card.
The THD-MW isn't the right card, it has a place for a 2.5" notebook HD
which most people don't need, and it appears to not be bootable to boot.
Here are some better cards:
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=26068625490>
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400140875982>
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220715663063>
If you're going to buy a PCI HD card, you might as well get an SATA
card so that you can use larger/cheaper HDs. The 3rd link above is a
cheap SATA card with free RAM perhaps.
The sweet spot has moved on past the Sawtooth and all the G4 PowerMacs
of less than 1 GHz.
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