[G4] How to use a Seagate SATA drive on a G4 AGP

[James Pacyga]

I have a Sonnet SATA PCI and WDC 200Gb drive.  It works great AND is 2x 
faster per Xbench or so since the AGP box has a relatively slow ATA bus 
compared to SATA (and even the PCI bus I believe which would be the 
limiting factor here I think)...

jim


On Jun 30, 2005, at 4:33 PM, B G wrote:

> Computer Surplus in Santa Clara.
>
> I don't have one I just saw them in the store. I do have an ultra IDE 
> card and use that to boot to 160gb HD and a Firewire/USB 2.0 combo 
> card both some off brand that I got there both less than $25.00 each.
>
> No problems so far. No extra driver was needed 10.3 and 10.4 both 
> recognized it.
>
> I am sure it is just a matter of the chipsets and the firmware, I got 
> lucky one box said MAC OS X on it,  the other had it on the 
> instructions inside but not on the box.
>
> If I ever find a cheap SATA drive I will pick up a card. Right now I 
> am running 2 160 gb drives both were less than $30 bucks each.
>
>
>
> Brian
>
> G4 gigE 1.0 GHz Powerlogix, 1 GB RAM
>
> On Jun 30, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Philip J Robar wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 30, 2005, at 9:15 AM, B G wrote:
>>
>>
>>> .....Caveat-- I have a local shop (SF - Bay area) that sells 
>>> Computer parts they carry off brands of everything the have the Mac 
>>> compatible SATA cards for $19.99. They are actually PC cards that 
>>> happen to have the Mac Drivers also. It is amazing how many products 
>>> I find that have the Mac drivers on the CD's but don't state it on 
>>> the box, a lot of these companies package the software they get from 
>>> whatever chip company they are using and don't even know it is 
>>> there. Some of them are even "Plug and Play" LOL because OS X 
>>> already has the drivers in it.
>>>
>>
>> Are drives attached to these cards boot-able? The issue for booting 
>> isn't one of drivers, but the card's firmware.
>>
>> I live in the south bay, which store?
>>
>> Phil
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