I have OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 and OS 9.2 and all boot without any problems. I'm thinking that I'ver read somewhere that there could be a problem depending on which slot the Sonnet SATA controller is installed. I'll check which slot I have the card installed in the morning. Cheers, Harry San Jose, Ca. Sent from my iPad On Dec 5, 2011, at 10:49 PM, KReitz <kristen at atmyhome.org> wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Harry Freeman wrote: > >> I have a MDD 1Ghz dual and I'm using the Sonnet SATA controller and I can boot from either a 500Gb or a 750Gb drive. >> >> What is the rev. Of your Sonnet SATA controller? >> >> Cheers >> >> Harry >> San Jose Ca. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Dec 5, 2011, at 7:38 PM, "Mikey" <mikey1 at rcn.com> wrote: >> >>> I installed OSX on my G4 MDD with Dual 1ghz processor (apple) . Runs fine. >>> >>> I have a Sonnet SATA controller for the 500 gig Data Drive, but no matter what I tried, I could not get the machine to boot OFF the Sata drive....I have to keep the original 40 gig IDE drive in the machine with OSX as the boot drive. >>> This drives me crazy. > > Mike and Harry, > > I can also boot from my Sonnet SATA controller. But not OS 9, only OS X. > > Mine is the Tempo found at http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/TSATA/ > > Kristen > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4