Although you might get luck and find one that would work, the odds are not in your favor and 99% chance that it wouldn't boot the machine. All the Mac ATA cards have firmware on them to allow the machine to boot. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe it stems from the PCs and their BIOS. The Mac version of the PC BIOS is considerably different, at least from what I'm told.
You can get ATA66 cards made by Sonnet or ACARD, pretty cheap. I saw OtherWorld Computing <www.macsales.com> selling them for $59. Both will work with OSX and also have a side benefit. Since these cards make your computer think that attached devices are SCSI, you don't have the 8GB instal limit for OSX. I have OSX.2 running in a 14GB partitition off a Sonnet Tempo ATA/66 in my Umax S900. I haven't had a problem for over a year. (I started with 10.1.1). Instals have gone easily as well. Of course, with these older machines especially YMMV. -Robyn On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 05:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my small amount of PCI card upgrading my 7500, I've purchased both > a USB > and a Firewire card that were very inexpensive, but came with no > promise of > Macintosh compatibility from the seller. In each case, the cards worked > perfectly in my Mac in both 9.1 & 10.2. > I'd like to get a big, new EIDE HD, but the cost of the Macintosh > "compatible" cards is very high in comparison to PC cards. Some of the > very > large HD's even come with a PC EIDE card for free. I believe its got > something to do with large volumes needing a newer card to get full > access? > My question is whether any of these new PC EIDE cards are Mac > compatible even > if they don't claim to be? Perhaps my experience with the USB and > Firewire > cards was just a lucky fluke because of the ignorance of the > sellers?(and > myself)! I can kinda see why PCI video cards are platform specific, > but I'm > having a hard time figuring why EIDE cards are? What's the deal? Who > makes > inexpensive Mac cards that are 10.2 compatible? Thanks! Kris Tilford -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
