I haven't gotten anywhere near testing Firewire yet, but it's something I rarely ever use anyway. I changed the cable to a short 40-pin one and tried setting the jumper to master but this 10GB Seagate still corrupted when attached to the proper controller. The only way I've found to get it working on this is to use Hard Disk Toolkit to disable UDMA. The problem then is that OSXS doesn't like it and refuses to install. If I was just going with regular MacOS this wouldn't be an issue.
Performance-wise the hard disk clocks about 13.6mb/sec on the wrong channel and 14 on the proper one with UDMA disabled so the only real advantage I can see in keeping the disk on the proper controller is being able to boot from CD by holding down C. This doesn't work when I have the cables swapped and can be a bit awkward. That and tidier cabling.
In time I'd like to replace this disk with something quieter as the motor is quite loud. Plus it's only 5400RPM. I'm not sure how well OSXS works with add-on IDE cards but chances are I'd end up finding a Rev.2 G3 for less than the price of a card off eBay.
Performance-wise the hard disk clocks about 13.6mb/sec on the wrong channel and 14 on the proper one with UDMA disabled so the only real advantage I can see in keeping the disk on the proper controller is being able to boot from CD by holding down C. This doesn't work when I have the cables swapped and can be a bit awkward. That and tidier cabling.
In time I'd like to replace this disk with something quieter as the motor is quite loud. Plus it's only 5400RPM. I'm not sure how well OSXS works with add-on IDE cards but chances are I'd end up finding a Rev.2 G3 for less than the price of a card off eBay.