[G4] Sonnet/SIIG ATA.SATA Card

[sr ferenczy]

Macintosh has always reported PCI ATA cards as SCSI cards.

sandor


On May 6, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Dusel, Peter W wrote:

>
> 	Could someone with a SONNET ATA, or SATA, or the SIIG card, and
> Panther do an "About this Mac" and "More Info" and see if they have
> something show up under SCSI? Another poster has already mentioned the
> Sonnet doesn't report as an ATA device.
>
> 	The reason I ask is Sonnet's older ATA-66 card masqueraded as a SCSI
> card. The downside is the drive must be formatted on their controller, 
> and
> can't simply be moved to a newer machine, such as a G5 for the SATA or 
> an
> MDD for an ATA, without re-formatting the drive again, or carrying 
> their
> card with the drive. (Or going in the other direction either) This is 
> rather
> a bummer to moving a couple hundred GB of data to a new machine, 
> without, at
> least, a spare large drive to shuttle the data.
>
> Pete
> ........................