In my 9500 (G3 300 upgrade) I installed a SIIG ATA133 PCI card and a ATA133 60 gig 7200 RPM drive, and the speed increase over the old SCSIs that I was using is spectacular. I partitioned the 60G into a 10g for my boot OS and the remaining 50 gig partition for apps, files and artwork. Startups are probably twice as fast or better, and when Norton or Apple Disk Repair scans the disk for problems, it goes much faster than with the stock SCSI disk.
I've been very pleased with it, EXCEPT, often when I'm using a program and try to save a large file to the ATA, it sometimes writes for several seconds then gives me something like "Cannont complete transefer due to an error (I/O bad media) or something close to that. It only seems to happen when saving from a program; I'm forced to save these files to the lone SCSI I kept inside the machine, mostly as a backup (with a backup OS), then later use the Finder to copy that file to the ATA. The Finder copy process has always worked without a hitch, regardless of file size, no problems. The copy failure has occured with several programs, so it doesn't seem to be program-specific. I've not yet, contacted SIIG about the problems yet, guess I'm just throwing it out there for those thinking about an ATA card upgrade. Oh, one other thing. Sometimes, during random file transfers (even saving something off the internet), a dialog will pop up and say something like "There is a problem with the disk (boot ATA disk) and some information or files may have been lost" Are they trying to scare me? That sure will. But normally I just hit the "OKAY" button and it goes on with whatever it was doing, and I don't think it there have actually been any losses yet. Go figure. If anyone has any insight to this, that would be great (and I'd probably sleep a little better). > Cameron Kaiser wrote: >> Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. TattleTech solved the problem; it >> indeed confirmed that there was a FireWire bus and even presented the slot >> and >> ID, which match up with the "USB 0" and "SCSI 2" (IDE) on the card. Seems >> like >> it all checks out. >> >> So far I've been very pleased with the card, especially the IDE throughput. >> No video stuttering, and very fast launches and boots. Well done, Sonnet. >> > > What kind of file transfer speed do you get between the SCSI side and > the ATA side? I'm wondering if there's a problem with mine...I'm only > getting like 2 mb/sec between an external SCSI and an internal 40G IDE > drive. > > I'm using it under OSX (10.2), and I keep having problems with > applications like CD burner (I've a supported CDRW on the thing and it's > working very intermittently) and Carbon Copy Cloner where the system > will freeze up completely... -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
