SATA drives on G4 // disk controllers

[Murias]

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Hi,
I once used the SIIG SATA controller avail from OWC (macsales.com) in a 
B&W G3.  It worked like a charm under both 9.2 and X.  I cannot tell 
you about its usefulness under YDL though.  But today at MacWorld I did 
check with the techies there at the OWC booth.  The reason why it 
worked so beautifully under 9 and X was for the fact it uses the same 
chipset that Apple uses in their machines.  Maybe this is also the key 
under YDL.  I am not sure if the chipset of the Sonnet card is the 
same.  I know that OWC does not sell the Sonnet controller, and that 
they trty to sell things with minimum fuss on the Mac, usually meaning 
the same chipsets.  Some of the techies at OWC are at least slightly 
versed in YDL.  I remember asking them last year if teh SIIG card would 
work under YDL, and they told me it should, just do not try to boot off 
of it.  I can ask them again tomorrow when I go back to find out for 
sure.  As I know that the people in the know are at the show.  I can 
also talk to Sonnet for ya and see if they say it is the same chipset 
or not.

Hope something in this might be of some help.

Peace
Murias

On Jan 10, 2005, at 8:26 AM, klubarpop wrote:
>
> I'm trying to set up a G4 (blue & white 450 mhz) as a server (mostly 
> running
> SAMBA) and was wondering what controllers others have used.
>
> Has anyone had success with the Tempo Serial ATA card?  Other
> recommendations?  Is there any RAID controller that will work well in 
> this
> configuration?  I'll be using the most current release of Yellow Dog.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ken Lubar
> EMI Strategic Marketing