Hello Bill,
The two internal ones do indeed get used for the inside stuff, the
two external ones allow you to hook up a pair of external boxes (most
likely with hard drives, but anything using the SATA bus will work).
It is difficult to find cards that have just the internal connectors
only, these tend to be built onto the motherboard themselves nowadays
(i.e. similar to the idea of ethernet cards at one time you could
find a lot of 10 baseT ethernet cards for Macs, then it was tricky to
find them but you could get 10/100 baseT cards, now it is 1 Gb baseT
cards -- because 10baseT is built in and the 10/100 cards are getting
more scarce.)
This is actually one of the smaller cards available today, many are
giving you four or eight external ports (for building those raids).
Jerry
p.s. Too bad flash memory is so slow eh?, with 16GB chips coming out,
if these could be used in place of DRAM that could be well something
to write home about, 8 x 16GB main ram, 1 x 16GB video ram hmm!
On Sep 13, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Bill Rising wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 0:39, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>
>> 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
>>
>
> I looked at their site, but it was all the higher end stuff. For
> instance, the card you mentioned is one of the ones which is fancy
> to me, since I think I need only 2 internal ports.
>
> I'll check it again, but I didn't think that I'd seen anything there.
>
> Bill
>
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