On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Jason Brown wrote:
It depends on what you want to do. Simplest is to buy a 500GB PATA
drive.
750 GB PATA drives were available for a while at many retailers.
However, for most practical purposes, 500 GB was the largest capacity
PATA drive which was consistently available.
There are a small number of SATA PCI cards which are fully compatible
with a G3 or G4 PPC Mac, and fewer still which are fully compatible
with a G5 PPC Mac.
These usually incorporate the Initio chip set and its firmware, and
are usually sold under the LaCie or OWC brand names, although the two
are different: the LaCie only offers external sata connections
(although the external connector is actually an iSATA connector)
whereas the OWC offers the user's choice of internal SATA (using
iSATA connectors) or external SATA (using eSATA connectors) or any
mixture of the two, for a total of two drive connections.
The Initio cards are fully bootable in at least G3 and G4 Macs. Don't
know about G5 Macs as by that time I had already migrated to Intel-
based MacOS X computing.
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