ATA/133 card advice

[csean at poc.it]

>i LOVE my sonnet tempo 133 card.... it's light years ahead of the onboard
>ide, (and it allows me to not worry about my b&w g3's (now g4/550) ide
>issues.  it took my 200G harddisk without a blink.
>
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>Subject: Re: [G4] G4 533Mhz Tower and a 200 GB hard drive - not !
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>Thanks to everyone for the help,
>So it looks like I need a PCI ATA/133 card - anyone got any suggestions as
>to which one?
>
>Thanks
>Tony.


I'm also thinking of getting an ATA/133 card for my G4 Sawtooth, as 
I'd like to install 2 x Western Digital 8MB cache drives (1 x 80GB, 1 
x 40GB) on separate buses (busses?), and leave the original 20GB on 
the computer bus as the startup disk. Got a good price on the drives, 
so why not...

Anyway, I think I remember reading that most of the ATA/133 cards 
were made by the same manufacturer, then rebadged as Sonnet, SIIG, 
etc.
Might have been a Macworld article, and IIRC, Macworld concluded that 
as the cards were essentially the same, the only differences were 
Warranty, Documentation and maybe extras, like cables. They concluded 
that the SIIG was the best deal, as it had a 5-year warranty. Nice.
I also noticed at OWC <www.macsales.com> that the SIIG ATA/133 is a 
relatively bargain priced $79. Double nice.

Anyone have anything good or bad to say about the SIIG ATA/133 card?

Any known problems with: 1) XLR8 G4/550 upgrade, 2) Nvidia Geforce4 
MX video card, 3) OS 9.x or 10.1.5?

Thanks,

Chris