[X4U] Connecting an IDE drive to a G5

Eugene list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net
Tue Oct 26 08:39:49 PDT 2004


On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:29:58AM -0400, Paul Hawkins wrote:
: Paul Moortgat wrote:
: > On 26-okt-04, at 17:18, Paul Hawkins wrote:
: > >
: > > How do I connect an older IDE/ATA hard drive to a G5??
: > 
: > That's easy.  Buy an external case, mount the drive inside and use
: > firewire.
: 
: Is there no way to connect it internally? I only need to back up some
: large files from the G5.

Buy a PCI card that gives you ATA/IDE.  Here's one:

	http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_ata133.html


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