[G4] mounting partitions across separate drives

[Kristen R]

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On Jan 16, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Kristen R wrote:

> List,
>
> 	After a lot of frustration with my G4 locking up and failing to  
> come out of sleep, I have finally found my trouble. I removed the  
> new Sonnet Tempo SATA controller card and direct connected back to  
> the original ATA drive. Everything is functioning so well I was able  
> to install Leopard without a hitch and am running on it now. I'm not  
> too pleased with the Sonnet folks over this one. While their claim  
> that you can boot from their controller card does work, it comes  
> with problems which are not addressed or mentioned. They are  
> important ones!
>
> 	But using this old ATA-33 drive and interface has really slowed the  
> machine down. Has anyone ever tried to use the default IDE interface  
> to boot yet used a SATA interface for the root directories? It's my  
> thought that I can use the IDE to boot and recover from sleep yet  
> use the SATA drive for it's speed and space, and also to load  
> programs or save data.
>
> Else I guess I would need to look at a new controller card and hope  
> that I don't have a similar issue. The Acard brand has a controller  
> which provides a single connection each for an IDE and SATA drive.  
> But I don't know if I would have the same issues or not.
>
> Your thoughts or websites you know of which might help me out would  
> be greatly appreciated!
>
> Kristen
> _______________________________________________

As a follow up.

	I have attempted to use the Sonnet Tempo SATA controller card along  
with the ATA drive. The Sonnet card causes a great deal of trouble and  
is being removed from my system. It's just too dysfunctional for this  
G4 of mine and is going up for sale. I never attempted to split my  
directories the two drives

I will continue to attempt my efforts when I find another controller  
card which works correctly.

Thank you all

Kristen

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