[G4] Re: SATA PCI Cards

[Tim Collier]

Just another vote for Sonnet.....top notch products.

Tim
On Nov 12, 2005, at 2:02 PM, James Pacyga wrote:

> Just to comment on SATA experiences.  I bought a fresh 200Gb SATA  
> drive and a Sonnet SATA 2ch controller and had 0 problems getting  
> it to work in my G4/500 AGP.
>
>
> On Nov 12, 2005, at 09:40 , Richard M. Kriss wrote:
>
>>
>>> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:00:26 -0500
>>> From: Steve Goldstein <sng at cox.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [G4] Hard Drive special (was: Partitioning Software)
>>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
>>>
>>> At 2:18 AM -0800 11/12/05, Aaron wrote:
>>>> Can Serial ATA drives be connected to the same ATA buses that  
>>>> the more
>>>> traditional (I think!) Parallel ATA drives connect to?
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>>> What adapters are necessary?
>>>
>>> You need a SATA card.  Costs about $50 for a mac.  Also, SATA  
>>> cable and power
>>> supply connector adaptor (for those drives that do not have two  
>>> types of poser
>>> supply inputs).
>>>
>>> --Steve
>>
>> Ditto on Steve's comment.  I had fits getting a new Seagate 80GB  
>> SATA to
>> work in my G4 with several SATA cards.  At first I blamed the  
>> problems on
>> the SATA cards then found out the drive needed to be initialized  
>> in a G5
>> before it could be used in the G4 with a SATA card.  It works  
>> great now.
>>
>> Heads up if you are starting with a virgin SATA drive.  My G4 with  
>> a SATA
>> card could not find the drive.  After it had been found in an  
>> external
>> housing on a G5 and it worked great in the G4.  The Apple Disk  
>> Utility works
>> fine now.
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
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