Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Reich
http://addonics.com/category/sata_controllers.php http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Ntk=Primary&Ns=P_Popularity%7c1&Ne=5000&N=6956&Ntt=pci Above are two links to sources of cards, some of which should be suitable. I have no first-person experience with any of them, nor do I have any busi

Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update

2013-01-14 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Thursday 03 January 2013 schrieb Martin Kuball: > Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Martin Kuball: > > Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > > On Mit, 2013-01-02 at 14:40 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > > > > Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > > > > On Di

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:26:04PM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: > This makes me wonder... Since I'm using mdadm, I should be able to > use any voltage-compatible card, provided that I first plug the card > in on a PC and configure it for straight-thru non-RAID access to all > drives, right? I'd ne

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Brian Szymanski
On 01/14/2013 01:06 PM, David Ricar wrote: At silicon image website in support. There are both raid and nonraid versions of the bios. As I do not have a single windows around me, I did it under FreeDOS well. This makes me wonder... Since I'm using mdadm, I should be able to use any voltage-co

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Brian Szymanski
On 01/14/2013 01:06 PM, David Ricar wrote: At silicon image website in support. There are both raid and nonraid versions of the bios. As I do not have a single windows around me, I did it under FreeDOS well. Ahh, I see them now. Thanks very much for your help! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread David Ricar
At silicon image website in support. There are both raid and nonraid versions of the bios. As I do not have a single windows around me, I did it under FreeDOS well. Cheers David On 01/14/2013 06:53 PM, Brian Szymanski wrote: Excellent, that's good to know. But where does one acquire a non-rai

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Brian Szymanski
Excellent, that's good to know. But where does one acquire a non-raid bios for the card though? Thanks! Brian On Jan 14, 2013 12:12 PM, "David Ricar" wrote: > Hi, > sil3124 may need to be booted in a pc with a drive attached and flashed > with nonraid bios. At leats this is a must for systems li

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread David Ricar
Hi, sil3124 may need to be booted in a pc with a drive attached and flashed with nonraid bios. At leats this is a must for systems like opensolaris even on a pc platform. Appart from that, this chipset is probably best at it's price level, we use it in some servers 24/7 for years. Have a nice