ATA/133 Sonnet or Acard |
April, 10, 2003 5:30 PM |
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I am looking to purchase an IDE controller for my 9600. Does anyone have a preference, and why? Are both fully supported in OS X? tx |
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RE: ATA/133 Sonnet or Acard |
April, 21, 2003 9:15 AM |
anomia |
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I have the Sonnet Trio and am happy to now also have FW and USB1.1-2.0 using just one PCI slot; this combination was never entirely stable or possible in the Umax S900 I have, with other cards using a combination of other slots. Since I have the Sonnet G4 800 mhz card I don't believe I would have DVD troubles like joevt, but until I get a DVD drive installed I can't confirm this. |
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RE: ATA/133 Sonnet or Acard |
April, 19, 2003 11:56 PM |
joevt |
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I have tried a Sonnet Tempo Trio and a SIIG ATA 133. The Trio does not play DVDs smoothly on my 8600 with 500 Mhz G3 like the SIIG does. The Sonnet cards that don't include USB and Firewire probably do not have DVD playing problems. |
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RE: ATA/133 Sonnet or Acard |
April, 12, 2003 2:59 AM |
marcush |
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I have a Sonnet ATA/100 but also have an Acard ATA/133. I prefer the Sonnet card for the same reason that egonzales21 states. I have a Pioneer DVR-104 and iDVD works with it because it is recognized as an ATAPI device. |
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RE: ATA/133 Sonnet or Acard |
April, 10, 2003 8:34 PM |
egonzales21 |
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I have the Sonnet 133 now and had the Acard 133 previously. The main advantage for the Sonnet is that it sees the drives attached to it as true ATA drives. The plus is that I now have a DVD burner (Pioneer 105) which can be used natively with my 9600. Though because it is seen as ATA, when installing OS X there is a 8GB limit. This can be fixed by installing X to another drive then cloning it back to the ATA drive. Drives attached to the Acard were seen as SCSI so there was no limit to the partitions, but I could not use IDE CDR or DVD drives without using them in firewire enclosures. Also my sound is totally fine with the Sonnet but with the Acard it was spotty and at times would disappear. |
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RE: ATA/133 Sonnet or Acard |
April, 10, 2003 5:34 PM |
ian |
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I have the SIIG ATA/133 card (which is an acard) and it has been wonderful as well as cheap. I have (3) 120 GB Samsung drives hooked up to it, and it has been nothing but reliable as far as I can tell. The SIIG also has a 5 year warranty to the acard's 1 and is a bit less expensive too. |
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