Choice of ATA/133 card with a PM 9500 and XPF? |
September, 18, 2002 2:24 PM |
ian |
I would like to get an ATA/133 card for my 9500 that I already have running Mac OS X 10.2 with XPF 2.2. However, if I get an ATA/133 card, I want to be able to replace the two SCSI disks I have internally with two IDE drives of much higher capacity, and boot from one of them. I'll probably make an OS 9 boot disk on a CD-RW so I can reset the NVRAM with XPF in case of anything happening. No OS 9 on this machine! Would I be able to boot X from either the Sonnet Tempo ATA/133 (part number STITAT133 from OWC) or the SIIG Ultra ATA/133 interface (SIISCMP4A12 from OWC) card? Is one better than the other? Are there any other ATA/133 cards I can boot a 9500 from? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. |
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RE: Choice of ATA/133 card with a PM 9500 and XPF? |
September, 21, 2002 4:24 AM |
gchron |
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I have an ACARD ATA 133 on my 9500 and it does not have any problems with the MacOS 9.2.2 (Hacked to boot in my machine) and the OSX 10.1.5 with XPF In my opinon this card is a very good selection as it did not caused any problem to me from when I purchase it. Also MacOS X has already installed the card kext |
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RE: Choice of ATA/133 card with a PM 9500 and XPF? |
September, 21, 2002 12:23 AM |
willschou1 |
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All of the IDE PCi cards for Mac will boot and run Mac OS whatever your machine can do. With an Apple 9500 that should be OS 7.5.3- OSX Jaguar. Go for it! I love my Sonnet/Acard IDE 66 card works great OS 9.1 and Jaguar on my Umax J700. PS. You could save money by buying the Acard IDE 66 card from OWC. It will run just as fast as the ATA 133 card as no IDE hard drive sold today will run much faster then 32-35mbsec.unless setup up as a raid system. |
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RE: Choice of ATA/133 card with a PM 9500 and XPF? |
September, 20, 2002 11:37 PM |
ian |
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Maybe someone can give me a heads up on wether or not I can boot from the SIIG card. It was payday today, and I'm seriously about to buy one. That's the only thing holding me back... |
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RE: Choice of ATA/133 card with a PM 9500 and XPF? |
September, 20, 2002 11:12 PM |
anton |
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ermm, i think you better ignore my endorsement of the Sonnet ATA 100 PCI card. it has just started to give me problems booting from 10.2.1 i have also read that some other sonnet ATA cards produce a similar error on booting "Disk0Sb blah blah (UNDEFINED)" even the newest ATA 133 firewire/usb one. there is a work around but hopefully a patch will be forthcoming from sonnet. sorry about the crap advice........ |
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RE: Choice of ATA/133 card with a PM 9500 and XPF? |
September, 19, 2002 8:32 PM |
marcush |
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I've never had the audio stuttering problem. ACARD released an A/V optimizer utility which slows down the card, but I've never had to use it. What willshou1 says abou throughput ranging between 32-35MB/s is true. The main difference that set the Tempo cards apart from ACARD and SIIG is that Sonnet has their own firmware, which is undoubtedly the source of their incompatability problems. |
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RE: Choice of ATA/133 card with a PM 9500 and XPF? |
September, 19, 2002 7:58 PM |
willschou1 |
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The Sonnet ATA/133, SIIG ATA/133 and the ACARD ATA/133 PCI cards are all the same card made by ACARD. Sonnet gives you the least support only supports ATA/IDE hard drives with the card. SIIG gives you full support for hard drives, CD and CDRW drives. ACARD has a list of supported drives which includes CD and CDRW but SIIG seems to offer the most support. The cards are the same just the support is different. Sonnet it seems wants to keep support to a minimum which likely keeps costs down profits up ;-) This doesn't mean there card won't work with CD and CDRW drives after all it is the same card as the others. My Sonnet Tempo ATA 66 card works fine with my IDE DVD/CD player. It also is the same card as the ACARD ATA66 which offers full support for this card sold at a bargin price by OWC. The Sonnet ATA 100 card is not made by ACARD so results may vary. Real world and bench testing shows almost no difference in speeds read/writes with the different speed cards. Few main stream if any currently sold hard drives test any faster then apox 32-35mb sec. So the faster listed speeds of the cards and drives means very little and seems to be a marketing thing. YMMV If you are using two hard drives in a raid setup that is a different story but requries a Raid ATA card which cost more. |
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RE: Choice of ATA/133 card with a PM 9500 and XPF? |
September, 19, 2002 7:52 PM |
wcswcs |
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I have a Sonnet Tempo and have eliminated SCSI need in a 7500. However, see other threads on this board for discussion of possible ATA related sound problems. marcush or anton, can you verify no sound issues? Iknow you guys have 9x00s... is it just a problem with 7500s? |
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RE: Choice of ATA/133 card with a PM 9500 and XPF? |
September, 19, 2002 7:13 PM |
marcush |
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Go for the ACARD ATA 100 or 133. I've seen no problem reports for these cards and they have had no compatability problems with any version of OS X that I am aware of. It's what I've got. I can install to any drive attached to it. |
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RE: Choice of ATA/133 card with a PM 9500 and XPF? |
September, 19, 2002 9:26 AM |
anton |
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i've got an ATA 100 Sonnet Tempo card in my 9600 it boots fine into OS9 and OS 10.2 from either attached 40 gig seagate can't tell you much about other cards, hope that helps. |