Hey folks, I was poking around looking for an s-ata card, so that I could use all the huge amount of space on some large hard drives which I've bought recently due to drive failures. Why buy something like this? The older macs I have can see only the first 137GB of a hard drive.
When I checked out reviews of such cards, they all seemed to be for much higher-end stuff than I need - things with 4 or 8 ports. All I need is something with 2 ports that would work well on an G4 AGP 400 which I plan to use for a backup and file server. I could then have loads of room to backup my files to (a 250 GB and a 160GB disk). Is there something that I should be on the lookout for? If I wanted to use the drives as a RAID to make things either fast or safe, is there anything I would need to watch for? Otherworldcomputing has 3 cards for sale: . a generic one which is kinda old: ACARD AEC-6290M . a card made by the folks who made lots of sata cards: FirmTek SeriTek/1S2 . a card from Sonnet, the folks who sell lots of cpu upgrades I've got no clue if there is any reason to be picky, and I cannot seem to find any hints on the web. Anyone have any pointers? Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
