Le mer. 15 juil. 2020 à 12:27, Rick Thomas <rick.tho...@pobox.com> a écrit : > I have an old PowerMac G4 "Silver" (PowerMac3,4 533 MHz) running Debian > Jessie, that I'd like to put a couple of SATA disks into.
That's a desire shared by many people, unfortunately with few good answers. You need to locate a SIL3112 (or in a pinch, SIL3114 can do) based PCI SATA card and flash it with a Fcode BIOS that was originally designed for a mac-oriented card. Details and links (of questionable legitimacy as the Fcode is probably still copyrighted) can be found on some Mac forums - or at least in their archives. I have a SIL3114 booting 10.5 in a G4 FW800. I've successfully made a PCIe LSI1068e boot from a SAS drive in a PCIe G5, and a similar procedure should work for PCI-X LSI1068/1064 in a PCI-X G5 (see <http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2020-July/142265.html> and <http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2020-July/142249.html>). However, those PCI-X cards are 3.3V only. Unless you can locate a 5V PCI[-X] card with a LSI1064/1068, it won't help in a G4 as its PCI slots are 5V only. I have _never_ seen a 5V LSI1064/1068 (and I've looked for my G4s!), so the SIL311[24] way is the only credible solution that I know of :-( Cordially, -- Romain Dolbeau