Thanks, Ralph, but I don't think that adapter will work in a G5. While Googling around for a fix, I came across this 'hack' on xlr8yourmac.com. I think this will work as a partial solution for me, and the photos demonstrate just how tight the fit is for the drives in a G5:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G5/G5_PATA_drives/index.html My only concern with this would be the extra cabling between master and slave. Does anyone think that would end up causing data corruption, or just a bit of a slowdown? Thanks, Eric On Sep 22, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Ralph wrote: > > Howdy, > I have used the following device in a Linux system. I am still > using > a G4 Mac. I don't have a Mac that uses SATA, so I have not tried this > in the machine you specify. But, I would be surprised if it does not > work, and it is pretty inexpensive. > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140268699076 > The only problem I can imagince is whether there is room for this > adapter to stick out the back of the IDE drive. Like I said above, I > don't have a G5, and don't know their internals. I have seen another > model that fit differently and does not need as much clearance in the > back. If you don't think this will work, I'll try to track the other > one down. A quick look this morning did not turn it up. > I have no tie to this seller, other than that I have bought from > them > before. > Good luck, > Ralph > > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 12:00 -0500, Eric Volker wrote: >> Is there anyway to shoehorn an old fashioned PATA/EIDE drive into a >> Powermac G5? ... but I was hoping I could >> avoid that with some kind of internal adapter. Does anyone know of >> such a thing that will fit inside of a G5 and work reliably? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
