On Apr 18, 2005, at 11:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/18/05 6:23:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I've been booting all my Beige G3's (a DT & a MT) from PCI firewire ports and external HD's using XPF. I recently bought a Sonnet ATA66 card that any attached drives as SCSI. I thought I could simply move my external firewire HD to the internal ATA66 card, but it isn't recognized. The Sonnet .pdf manual says that any HD must be initialized on the Sonnet card. Is this true? If so, what a hassle. I may just sell the card and stick with firewire if this is the case. >>
Acard ATA/IDE pci controller card is same, sees drive as scsi, and requires drives be initialized on it to be seen. I believe this is pretty standard. I copied data to those drives from drives on stock internal IDE bus after I initialized via Acard.
This isn't necessary with SIIG's controller, at least their 133 one. Despite it displaying the drive as an SCSI device, I was able to transfer a drive formatted on the native bus on my beige, and plug it right in without a hassle. Also, I recently transferred the two drives I had on the card to a DA g4, again without reformatting.
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