Maybe I've missed something here, but I bought a SIIG ATA133 card and use it with a Maxtor 60G hard drive. It took me awhile to get it recgonized and formatted, but, with a few odd exceptions, it works fine (and it's my startup drive for OS 8.6 in a 9500 Xlr8 G3/250).
> Subject: Re: ATA Cards-veering OT, but interesting info nonetheless > > Although the USB and FW portions of the card don't have firmware, the > ATA portion of the card does. This is required to make the drives > usable. I checked their site, and they do have an UATA-133 card the > is Mac compatible, so it is not out of the realm of the possible. > >> Most of SIIG's cards just work with Macs. Are you sure this one doesn't? >> >> On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 06:55 PM, Leonard Gerstel wrote: >> >>>> I've been searching for one and have >>>> noticed the PC ones are dirt cheap compared to ones "made" for Mac. >>> >>> Just stopped by my local pc chop shop and noticed a card that MAYBE we >>> can >>> get SIIG to port to the Mac. It is a Tempo Trio competitor. Dual ATA >>> 100 >>> (or 133, I forget), USB 2.0 and Firewire (2 external and 1 internal of >>> each) for $108.00 >>> >>> Anyone got SIIG's email to send suggestions to? -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
