Hi Peter,
The Initio-based adapters work well in G4 Macs. Less well in Intel Macs.
Both the LaCie and OWC adapters are (were) Initio-based.
The OWC adapter has switchable internal/external, and the external
connector is indeed eSATA, just as the internal connector is indeed
iSATA.
Today
On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:03 PM, yawg wrote:
Hi Peter,
The Initio-based adapters work well in G4 Macs. Less well in Intel
Macs.
Both the LaCie and OWC adapters are (were) Initio-based.
The OWC adapter has switchable internal/external, and the external
connector is indeed eSATA, just as
On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:03 PM, yawg wrote:
Hi Peter,
The Initio-based adapters work well in G4 Macs. Less well in Intel
Macs.
Both the LaCie and OWC adapters are (were) Initio-based.
The OWC adapter has switchable internal/external, and the external
connector is indeed eSATA, just as
Hi,
I am using a SeriTek SATA card in my MDD. It is bootable. It runs in
PCI slots as well as PCI-X.http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1ve2plus2/
I find the SeriTek card quite expensive. It's also not clear if the
SeriTek card will work flawlessly under Panther. I'll try out the
ICIDU PCI
Hi,
I am using a SeriTek SATA card in my MDD. It is bootable. It runs in
PCI slots as well as PCI-X.http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1ve2plus2/
I find the SeriTek card quite expensive. It's also not clear if the
SeriTek card will work flawlessly under Panther. I'll try out the
ICIDU PCI
On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:06 PM, yawg wrote:
I find the SeriTek card quite expensive.
I find all FirmTek cards to be overpriced.
I found this instead which looks very promising. The seller claims his
card is bootable under Panther:
On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:14 PM, PeterH wrote:
That appears to be a Silicon Image-based card.
Si I has a very responsible approach to MacOS ... nearly all (if not
all) their products have MacOS drivers available for download.
Silicon image cards aren't bootable in PPC Macs, and perhaps not in
I am using a SeriTek SATA card in my MDD. It is bootable. It runs in
PCI slots as well as PCI-X.
http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1ve2plus2/
On Jan 30, 2:42 pm, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have loads of ripped DVDs and a big music archive and the four disks
in my MDD are almost
On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:42 AM, yawg wrote:
Does anybody on this list know more about the ins and outs of SATA
adapters in Macs?
The Initio-based adapters work well in G4 Macs. Less well in Intel Macs.
Both the LaCie and OWC adapters are (were) Initio-based.
The OWC adapter has switchable
