[G4] Re: SATA PCI Cards

[James Pacyga]

Just to comment on SATA experiences.  I bought a fresh 200Gb SATA  
drive and a Sonnet SATA 2ch controller and had 0 problems getting it  
to work in my G4/500 AGP.


On Nov 12, 2005, at 09:40 , Richard M. Kriss wrote:

>
>> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:00:26 -0500
>> From: Steve Goldstein <sng at cox.net>
>> Subject: Re: [G4] Hard Drive special (was: Partitioning Software)
>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
>>
>> At 2:18 AM -0800 11/12/05, Aaron wrote:
>>> Can Serial ATA drives be connected to the same ATA buses that the  
>>> more
>>> traditional (I think!) Parallel ATA drives connect to?
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> What adapters are necessary?
>>
>> You need a SATA card.  Costs about $50 for a mac.  Also, SATA  
>> cable and power
>> supply connector adaptor (for those drives that do not have two  
>> types of poser
>> supply inputs).
>>
>> --Steve
>
> Ditto on Steve's comment.  I had fits getting a new Seagate 80GB  
> SATA to
> work in my G4 with several SATA cards.  At first I blamed the  
> problems on
> the SATA cards then found out the drive needed to be initialized in  
> a G5
> before it could be used in the G4 with a SATA card.  It works great  
> now.
>
> Heads up if you are starting with a virgin SATA drive.  My G4 with  
> a SATA
> card could not find the drive.  After it had been found in an external
> housing on a G5 and it worked great in the G4.  The Apple Disk  
> Utility works
> fine now.
>
> Dick
>
>
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