SATA card for a G4 AGP?

2009-06-15 Thread joe
Just looking at harddrive prices for larger drives, it seems that it might be worth my while to get a SATA controller card. I don't know anything about them, though. Is there anything in particular I should look for? Can I buy any SATA card, or does it have to specify for Mac? TIA, Joe

Re: SATA card for a G4 AGP?

2009-06-15 Thread Baha Ata
Sonnet SATA cards... Look to ebay... You may look PCI Sonnet Sata cards... There is some alternatives according to Chipsets but really some other experts may give models (Pc models that work for Apple) for cheaper alternatives. 2009/6/15 joe j...@joethejuggler.com Just looking at harddrive

Re: SATA card for a G4 AGP?

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Baker
Ata baha...@gmail.com wrote: From: Baha Ata baha...@gmail.com Subject: Re: SATA card for a G4 AGP? To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 11:22 AM Sonnet SATA cards... Look to ebay... You may look PCI Sonnet Sata cards...  There is some alternatives according to Chipsets

Re: SATA card for a G4 AGP?

2009-06-15 Thread dc
Interesting, I thought the Sonnet cards were simply re-branded Firmtek cards, but I don't remember where I heard that... maybe there you had some other problem? Anyway I have Firmtek SATA cards in my MDD and G5 PPC and they work fine. The MDD is booting from a single SATA drive and the PPC G5 is

Re: [G3-5]Re: SATA card for a G4 AGP?

2009-06-15 Thread MaGioZal
On 6/15/09 12:22 PM, Baha Ata at baha...@gmail.com wrote: Sonnet SATA cards... Look to ebay... You may look PCI Sonnet Sata cards...  There is some alternatives according to Chipsets but really some other experts may give models (Pc models that work for Apple) for cheaper alternatives.