I've been researching this for the last couple of days, but I haven't really gotten anywhere. Maybe someone here can help a bit.
I want to buy a SATA controller for a digital audio G4. I'm looking at the FirmTek SeriTek/1S2 because it's cheap, and it provides internal ports. Plus, it's the card that Sonnet rebrands to make their low-end SATA controller. I figure that if it's good enough for Sonnet, it's good enough for me...
But here are my questions:
1) Are drives connected to SATA controllers transportable to built-in SATA ports on, say, the Mac Pro? PCI ATA controllers use some special kabuki stuff to format the drives on the card which makes them unusable on vanilla built-in ATA controllers without reformatting.
2) What kind of performance can I expect on a G4? All the reviews talk about the PCI-X slots in a G5, and I haven't been able to find any reviews of the cards in a G4 w/ 64-bit PCI slots.
3) Are there any SATA controllers that are not bootable?
4) The PCI slots in a G4 are 33 MHz 64-bits, right?
Peace,
Drew
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I want to buy a SATA controller for a digital audio G4. I'm looking at the FirmTek SeriTek/1S2 because it's cheap, and it provides internal ports. Plus, it's the card that Sonnet rebrands to make their low-end SATA controller. I figure that if it's good enough for Sonnet, it's good enough for me...
But here are my questions:
1) Are drives connected to SATA controllers transportable to built-in SATA ports on, say, the Mac Pro? PCI ATA controllers use some special kabuki stuff to format the drives on the card which makes them unusable on vanilla built-in ATA controllers without reformatting.
2) What kind of performance can I expect on a G4? All the reviews talk about the PCI-X slots in a G5, and I haven't been able to find any reviews of the cards in a G4 w/ 64-bit PCI slots.
3) Are there any SATA controllers that are not bootable?
4) The PCI slots in a G4 are 33 MHz 64-bits, right?
Peace,
Drew
_________________
Power to the PowerPC!