[G4] Re: G4 TO G5 Transfer

[Peter Schaff]

Another consideration in using ATA drives in a new dual core PowerMac 
is that the PCIe (Extreme?) is NOT backward compatible with any PCI 
cards, so you'll need to find a PCIe card for your G4 drives.  I'd go 
USB or Firewire.  I'm getting another 250GB drive and keeping my MDD's 
2 80GB drives for that computer.

  - Peter


On Saturday, December 10, 2005, at 10:57  PM, Philip J Robar wrote:

>
> On Dec 10, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Richard M. Kriss wrote:
>
>>> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:05:24 -0800
>>> From: James Pacyga <jim.pacyga at earthlink.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [G4] G4 TO G5 Transfer
>>>
>>> No, they are ATA parallel drives, G5 architectures use SATA (serial
>>> ATA).
>>
>> I may not have this problem since I have a SATA/PCI card in my G4 
>> that lets
>> me use a SATA drive in the G4.  The posting raises an interesting 
>> question.
>> Is there such a thing as a card you can add to a G5 that will let you 
>> use
>> you old ATA drives?
>
> Sure, depending on which G5 you have. G5's with PCI-X slots are 
> backwards compatible with most PCI cards, so you can use a PCI PATA 
> card in them. Other options are to adapt the PATA drives to SATA. Of 
> course cabling issues and the physical space the adaptors take up may 
> further limit your choices.
>
> Phil