ATA card & drive bootable? |
May, 01, 2003 12:53 AM |
jeff475 |
First I must say I paid the $10 so that I could search the forum to find out the answer to my question. Needless to say, I am pretty disappointed that there is no search feature. Anyway, I have an old 8500. I am thinking about spending some money on it for upgrades and I am wondering if XPF will work with an ATA card and and IDE drive. I am talking about the only hard drive present being an IDE drive attached to some ATA drive. If so, then along with a G3 or G4 upgrade card and some RAM, I'd be purchasing this card and hard drive. Other peoples experiences would be welcome. Thanks, Jeff Kazules |
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RE: ATA card & drive bootable? |
May, 02, 2003 3:54 PM |
jslewis |
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I've used acard PCI cards and a Sonnet 133 PCI card. The only problem with the sonnet PCI card is that there is an OSX installer glitch that can make it hard to install OSX on large drives, i.e. the installer doesn't believe that it should let you not that their is in fact a problem with the sonnet card. Aside from that it works just fine and is the works best for a 105 DVD-R drive. |
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RE: ATA card & drive bootable? |
May, 01, 2003 8:21 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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I have the acard ahard 66mhz card, which I prefer since it's seems just as fast as the 133 card (in non raid setups), and it poses as SCSI which circumvents the 8G boot drive limitation... Also it's cheap. Like $59.00 from OWC I like gogocity.com for ATA storage. Although I did buy my 40x Teac burner from OWC and it works perfectly from the Acard secondary bus as well. My boot drive is a 60G Maxtor. ATA 66 is limited with respect to BIG drives (over 120G?). Anyhow, works for me. Warm or cold 10.2.5 on a Powertower Pro Joecard 500Mhz (clocked at 480) G3. Marty PS I also have an Adaptec 29160N in this machine for additional storage. |
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RE: ATA card & drive bootable? |
May, 01, 2003 7:54 PM |
jeff475 |
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Thanks for the help guys. That's 75% no problems at all, and 25% will work with minor annoyance. Thanks once again. |
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RE: ATA card & drive bootable? |
May, 01, 2003 3:00 PM |
marcush |
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I've been using an ATA card and an IDE drive to boot since 10.1. I've used both an Acard ATA/133 and now a Sonnet Tempo ATA/100. I switched to the Sonnet card because it allows my internal Pioneer DVR-104 to be used with iDVD. I've been able to warm and cold boot my machine without problems from the time I switched from SCSI to IDE. I have a Power Tower Pro with a Sonnet G4 800 installed. |
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RE: ATA card & drive bootable? |
May, 01, 2003 1:20 PM |
ian |
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I have a SIIG ATA/133 in my 9500. It's been upgraded with a 300 MHz G3 on a CarrierZIF from XLR8. It has no problem cold or warm booting to any of the 3 drives connected to the ATA card. I never tried running X without the upgrade card, so I couldn't vouch for it that way, but I also have not run anything below 10.2 (which requires a G3/4 anyways.) Much as I love OWC, try www.zeehoo.com or www.allstarshop.com for cheap ATA drives. I got my 120 GB Samsungs from Zeehoo, but I picked them up from the location. You'll probably have to have them shipped. |
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RE: ATA card & drive bootable? |
May, 01, 2003 9:24 AM |
egonzales21 |
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I currently have a Sonnet Tempo 133 in my 9600 along with a Sonnet G4 800. I have no problems cold or warm booting this Mac only using the ATA card to boot from. I also had this same combo in a 8500 without problems. |
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RE: ATA card & drive bootable? |
May, 01, 2003 9:10 AM |
matti.haveri |
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I have Sonnet Tempo ATA100 and I could cold- and warm-boot 10.1.5 from it with the 8600's stock 604e CPU. But after I upgraded to XLR8 G4 450 I can only warm-boot X from the ATA drive. So now I have to 1st cold-boot into 9.1, then warm-boot into 10.2.5 which is a minor annoyance. It would be possible to cold-boot into X via internal SCSI but I prefer the 2x ATA speed. I don't know whether this limitation in cold-boot is specific to the XLR8 card. Anyone? |
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