[G4] External Drive Case Firewire vs. USB 2

Richard Klein rich at richardklein.org
Wed Aug 2 08:28:21 PDT 2006


<quote who="Steve Goldstein">
>
> Yes, you can get an internal PC-133 bus PCI card (for the life of me, I
> cannot remember what they are called) that will recognize the full sizes
> of your HDs.  Unfortunately, the versions that work in a Mac cost about
> $50 (the PC versions are cheaper, but do not necessarily work in Macs).

Minor quibble: PC-133 is the memory bus.  The PCI bus in the G4s I'm
familiar with runs at 33MHz.  The G5s may have a 66MHz PCI bus, but I
don't know.

-- Rich



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