The folks over at BareFeats have this to say about using the SeriTek/ 1VE2+2 card on a G4:
"c) G4 Power Mac owners wanting a PCI-X Serial ATA host adapter with 2 internal and 2 external ports that's backwards compatible with 33MHz and 66MHz PCI slots and supports both OS 9 and OS X. These same owners may want to move this card to their future G5 Power Mac without losing bandwidth." http://www.barefeats.com/hard49.html They (the BareFeats folks) have both the very good and the bad things to say about all of the cards you have listed, try playing on their site for a while Jerry On Sep 12, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > 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> > ----------------------------------- Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050913/9e3d4255/attachment.bin
