On Jun 16, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
On Jun 16, 2010, at 8:16 AM, john CARMONNE wrote:
On Jun 16, 2010, at 7:54 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
what kind of eSata pci card do I need to have external optical
drive function? Is there anybody out there who has successfully
gotten a sata blue-ray drive in an external esata enclosure to
work? what about 3rd party software?
Jeff Engle
Kamiah, Idaho 83536
My Mac Information:
Power Mac G5 (Early 2005 Model)
Dual 2.3ghz
4 gb DDR SDRAM
Leopard 10.5.8 (Build 9L31a)
Firmtek/Seritek 1V4 (Rom v. 5.1.3)
G5-Jive w/3 500gb WD HD's
Samsung SyncMaster 245bw 24"
I have the same machine as you except mine's a Dual 2.7 6GB 10TB
I have the same Firmtek card and Jive FIVE also.
I did in the beginning haave a problem with the external port on
the SATA card but it turned out to be the WD MyBook drive. After I
got new drive enclosures I'm OK. I haven't tried an optical but I
see no reason not to work.
John,
I haven't bought the optical drive yet, hoping to find someone
that's been there already... Jeff ps. what in the world do you
need 10TB for?
I have all my software images, iTunes and DVD images, That's just the
internal stuff for fast network access, I find external drives to be
a PITA sometimes. My "Stanley Steamer" (PM G5 liquid cooled) is a
real work horse with everyting SATA internal ealily rip and burn two
at a time. A word to to wise, I would lean twoard Pioneer optical
drives on the Macs I've had trouble with all the others.
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
Sent from my TiBook 500
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