I have a couple of points to add to this thread: In my experience with a Sonnet Sata card you can boot both G3 B&W and G4 AGP's from it (panther and tiger), BUT in the case of the G3 only if its a simple volume. I tried to boot from a raid0 pair and it didn't work, but it does on a G4.
The 32/64 pci slots work fine with PCI-X (not to be confused with PCIe, which is totally different). Also the Sonnet card will work in the 66MHz 32 bit G3 B&W "video" pci slot. Since a 64bit PCI card will work twice as fast as a 32bit one there is a definite advantage to using a PCI-X card even if it's not being used at it max rated speed. I have used an Adaptech Firewire 800 PCI-X card (can't remember the model) in a G4 AGP 64bit PCI slot, which I then connected to an external FW800 sata drive box with two drives in the boxes raid0 configuration (Galaxy Metal Gear Hard Drive Enclosure). I used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the internal drive to it and found that after booting from it, I didn't notice any significant reduction in usability. For a while I had a driveless Mac at work and a Mac at home and just moved the external drive from one to the other for a seamless workflow :-) Try doing that with a PC. --- On Tue, 12/22/09, Bill Connelly <billycarm...@verizon.net> wrote: > A little concerned if it should go bad, I'd be out of a > system for > awhile. > > I've considered buying one of those PATA (onboard IDE) > to/from SATA > adapters as a backup. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
