thanks for all the inputs- I was primarily looking at large storage, not necessarily bootable (but something to obviously consider that I wouldn't have without these responses ). SATA appears to be the least expensive/most available hard drives
On Jun 15, 4:43 pm, Stewie de Young <stewies...@hotmail.com> wrote: > That is NOT going to work. > Illirik Smirnov > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Kris Tilford <ktilfo...@cox.net> wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:53 AM, mlsimm...@aol.com wrote: > > CompUSA lists a "Masscool XWT-RC061 3 Port SATA PCI Card - 2 internal SATA, > External SATA, 1.5Gbps Support" for $20 ---it says The board provides a > 32bit, 33/66 MHz PCI interface on the host side, fully compliant Serial ATA > ports on the device side to access Serial ATA mobile storage devices and > standard media such as Hard Disk drive, floppy disk drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, > DVD, DVD-ROM, etc... 3 Serial ATA port (two internal and one external), Has > anyone had any luck with using this or any other generic cards on a > quicksilver running Tiger > > This card appears to have significant problems in Windows, so it's very > unlikely it will perform well in OS X. It appears to use a VIA chipset. The > biggest problem I foresee on a Quicksilver is that the card won't be > bootable, you need a card with Mac boot ROM, so most PC cards that "work" > under OS X are strictly for storage only, they can't boot under normal > conditions. This card seems to be a RAID card, meaning that individual HDs > aren't useable as separate drives. I don't think this is a good solution for > a PPC Mac. > > The only cards that I'm aware of that have the PPC Mac boot ROM are the > Firmtek cards and perhaps the Acard? There are cards like that Sonnet that > are rebranded Firmtek cards, there may be others, but be sure you can boot IF > you need to boot. If you don't need to boot, Silicon Image cards have Mac > support and are very reasonably priced, but they won't boot on a PPC Mac. > > I have to agree with Illrik and Kris > here. Most PCI cards that have the Via or Ali chipset whether it is a > USB2.0 , SATA or IDE card are problematical on the Mac and cause issues > like sleep problems or i the case of this SATA card just won't be > recognised. > > These cards below are known to work on a Mac and most if not all are bootable > with a connected HD and correct OS version. > > Prices are roughly what I have gleaned from the 'net. > > My preference is for the SeriTek/1S2 as I have two in different G4s and they > work great with attached internal drives. > > Others like the Sonnet Tempo SATA X4P have eSATA external ports only but > those attached hard drives are bootable > > FirmTek SeriTek/1S2 : two port internal $64 US > > FirmTek SeriTek/1V4 : $ 109 US : > > Sonnet's Tempo™ SATA X4i 4-port : $178 US > > Sonnet Tempo SATA X4P PCI and PCI-X 4 port external eSata only - no internal > SATA ports $ 299 US > > SIIG Serial ATA PCI card : $59 US > > 2 channel > > SIIG SC-SA4011 4-Channel PCI to SATA Host Adapter : $65 US > > Acard AEC-6280M 2-Channel PCI to IDE Host Adapter : $70 US > > Mac OS8.5,OS9 and OSX > > Acard AEC-6293M 2-Channel PCI to IDE+SATA Host Adapter : $80 US > > Acard AEC-6290M 2-Channel PCI to IDE+SATA Host Adapter : $80 US > > Stewie > > _________________________________________________________________ > If It Exists, You'll Find it on SEEK. Australia's #1 job > sitehttp://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157639755/direct/01/ -- 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
