Everything works fine with only the SCSI drive under OS 9 and OS 7. However, my goal was to get the best out of the SATA card. So I was looking for a solution to make it work perfectly.

I tried with a normal SATA drive (7200rpm) and the result was the same.

I need some room to be able to boot Mac OS X and store some files for backup. SATA drives are not too expensive so it's perfect for that and, actually, OS X works quite well on the SSD. I am able to play DivX files but no MP3.

Playing MP3s or videos from the bigger drive under OS 9 or OS 7 is a nice to have of course!

FYI, on my 9500 the SCSI drive scores 11 on XBench (read/write speed) while the normal SATA drive scores about 30 and the SSD a bit more than 60.