[G4] motherboard vs. pci drive controller

[Richard Klein]

On 12/06/07, Devon Ravine [devonr at nwfdailynews.com] wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a Sonnet Tempo ATA 133 pci hard drive controller 
> card that I was considering installing in my G4 (AGP) 400 mh. 
> machine. I'm not all that concerned about large drive support 
> or putting more than 2 drive in the G4. But I was wondering 
> if anyone on the list could tell me if there are performance 
> benefits (read/write speed, etc) to using a pci hard drive 
> controller vs. the on-board controller.

There shouldn't be.  Just going on my failable memory, I think the on-board
controller is actually also a PCI controller, only it's hardwired into the
PCI bus instead of being on a plug-in card.  I also think the on-board
controller is ATA 100 instead of ATA 133, but I doubt that'd make a very
noticeable difference.

-- 
Rich