[G4] SATA drive

[Tony Gamble]

Well, your G4 is definitely not SATA capable, out of the box.  You'd  
have to add in a PCI card which would open up this avenue to you.   
There are some here: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/ATA- 
SCSI-Firewire-Controllers/

I took a look for adapters to convert it for you, but they all seem  
to want to convert the old IDE/ATA drives to SATA, rather than the  
other way around.  I suppose that makes sense, as converting the  
other way would eliminate any benefits the SATA specs would offer.

Your friend is right about it being Plug & Play, though... there are  
no jumpers to configure. :)

Tony

On 20-Jun-05, at 9:26 AM, Peter wrote:

> A friend is upgrading the HD on his G5  and has offered my the old  
> SATA drive  for my G4. Meantime, he has given me a patch lead  
> (which he says is connected to a power supply) with a SATA drive  
> connection. He assures me it should be plug and play but, I'm not  
> so sure. Any advice?
>
> [System- macintosh G4 Digital Audio; OSX 10.4.1; 1GHz; 896 Mb SDRAM]
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