On Dec 8, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:
My SATA card (Seri-Tek1S2) has internal and external connections.
I think you've got the model name wrong? The "1S2" was two internal connections only. The model that had two internal and two external was called the 1V2+2, or 1VE2+2, or 1eVE2+2.
The internal connection is connected to a 500 GB Seagate drive and seems to be working great for almost a year now. My first question - Why doesnt the drive show up in the System Profiler? The card shows up on the "PCI Cards" but no drive shows up in the "Serial ATA" or anywhere? Can I fix this?
I don't think so. If you boot from these SeriTek cards you can't "Safe Boot" either. There are some limitations to SeriTek cards, and lack of the HD showing in System Profiler is one. I assume this could be patched rather easily, on the hackintosh side there are often patched versions of System Profiler that show unsupported hardware, but these are normally Intel versions that won't likely run on a PPC Mac, and might not help this specific issue.
Second question - I am going to use the external SATA connection to connect to an external enclosure - strictly for back-up. I am going to use a Seagate drive because I still have good luck with them. Is it better to use one of the new "green" Barracuda 5900 rpm drives or the standard 7200 Barracuda drives (that I have been using for years)?
Probably doesn't matter. The main issue with external enclosures is cooling. Many enclosures lack any fan or active cooling, so higher RPM drives under heavy usage have been known to overheat in an external enclosure. It's likely the 5900 RPM green drive runs cooler than the 7200 RPM normal drive, but if it's only for backup, and you're rarely accessing the drive, use whichever you want.
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