[G4] G4 WD ATA drive

[Daniel Brieck]

Any guesses to why PCI based ATA / IDE cards cost  over 2 times more 
for the macs. The ATA cards for PC's are much cheaper. Are there any 
known firmware hacks available for ATA cards like there are for certain 
PC graphics cards to get them to work on a mac. The Mac PCI ATA 
controller cards are like Gold, hard to come by and seemingly over 
priced for what their worth. Even though I un doubtably could use one 
of the cards with my two hard drives on one ATA 66 bus, but it is just 
not worth it at  nearly $100....

The only product that has "some" price justification is Sonnets tempe 
trio card http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_trio.html

Dan Brieck Jr.

On Jan 5, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Ron wrote:

> Like Sandor said, you only would need a card to access that part of a 
> hard
> drive larger than 136 gig. Speed will not be improved. If you do get a 
> card,
> watch which card you get. Some will not allow you to put your mac to 
> sleep
> depending on your OS.
>>
>> I'm a novice with PCI cards, but I thought they were necessary to take
>> advantage of the newer drives' higher access speed.  If so, is it 
>> worth the
>> $80 for the PCI card?