Follow up: I went with the external SATA/Firewire enclosure. Tested it today
and it allows me to boot into the SATA drive and run all the apps I used with
the G5. Granted a lot slower but since the G4 has a dual 1.25 GHz upgrade it is
workable and just a little slower than the MDD I sold in July. I t allows me to
access and edit my legacy files.
I decided against the PCI card since I read one review that said it worked
great in 10.4.11 and another that said it did not work at all in 10.4.11? Then
there is the concern will it boot and recognize more than the 127 GB of the
SATA drive. For the same reason I decided against a good suggestion to buy an
adapter -- did not think the Sawtooth would recognize the full capacity of the
drive without the Firmware hack or 3rd party software.
I found cheap SATA/Firewire enclosures hard to find. The one purchased is an
Iomega job lot surplus type for $35 shipped. It is new with all the screws and
a bunch of stuff, some needed and some not. No instructions but easy to figure
out. Really cheap construction, with self tapping screws that require a lot of
patience and some improvised tools to get to work. But it does the job so I'm
OK with it.
Fixing the G5:My second G5 that was severely damaged in shipping and whose PS
may be a good replacement had developed a LC leak with much corrosion, no
surprise. Then I remembered that the PS in this damaged G5 displayed the same
symptoms regarding the power supply that failed. I did start to to take it
apart but without having a long reach t-10 wrench I improvised a tool and got 7
of 8 hex screws out of the LCS unit but of course there is always one that
won't loosen up. So unless I buy another tool I will not likely use again I am
giving up on the G5 repair.
Thanks for all the help and suggestions -- glen
From: 'glenstrek' via G-Group <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com>
To: G-Group <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 6:18 PM
Subject: SATA PCI Card for G4 Sawtooth?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124028
I'm thinking of using this SYBA SY-PCI140010 PCI card to add a SATA drive to my
G4 Sawtooth. I have checked the SYBA site and it does have an OS X driver with
a 2010 date. It does not say what version of OS X. Has anyone had any success
or failure with this card? It has a SIL3124 Chipset. The hard drive is a 320 MB
SATA II. The Sawtooth has a dual 1.25 GHz upgrade processor with 2 GB RAM and
running 10.4.11.
The Sawtooth recognizes the full 320 GB of the drive when attached via a USB
2.0 card or the USB 1.1 native bus using a SATA-USB adapter. I would rather
have the drive inside the computer and be able to boot the drive into 10.4.11.
I can't do that when connected with USB on that old G4. My other option is a
SATA/Firewire external enclosure which should be bootable and would cost about
the same.
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