I recently acquired a dual G5 on eBay. Unfortunately, it came with a measly 80GB SATA drive. I happened to have a 320GB EIDE/PATA drive and a Firewire 400 enclosure sitting around. Presto! 320GB boot drive, right? Not so fast, methinks. Firstly, my enclosure has much-maligned Prolific PL-3507 chipset. Secondly, it strikes that me that booting off of an external drive might not be the best idea (e.g., what happens if someone trips on the cord?)
I'm somewhat concerned about the reliability of the Prolific chipset. If I remember correctly, I had problems with bootable systems just disappearing. However, I have since flashed the firmware, and have also copied back and forth 40GB or so of data without any problems. So what does the list think about using that 320GB as a primary boot drive? Am I just asking for trouble, or is it a reasonable solution given the fact that I don't want to cough up $100 for a new SATA drive. Thanks, Eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
