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    I'm not dead! I'm getting better! (CL score)

    yea, I always dban drives when I get them. I will salvage the adobe license even though i'll likely never use it. But the previous owner either cleaned his info from both machines, or did his work entirely on external drives. Which would explain the fast firewire adapters in both machines.
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    I'm not dead! I'm getting better! (CL score)

    So I cracked the machines open today. The G5 is a little unhappy. It was upgraded with 8x 1gb sticks of ram, but finder only claimed 6gb was available. (2 empty slots in profiler) Re-seating the ram resulted in losing another 1gb. So that's a thing i'll deal with later. The firewire card...
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    I'm not dead! I'm getting better! (CL score)

    I know I haven't logged in here for a while, I never really left, but slinked in the shadows. but no more! I scored a pair of Macintosh machines tonight, naturally I have to tell EVERYONE who will listen and quite a few that don't want to. The listing somehow eluded my Craigslist email...
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

    Got the chips from ebay, a couple days ago, truth be told.  MX29LV040CQ1  New in package, but pre-programmed with some telecom firmware. No dice. That said, while parperusing ebay, I did find another card based on all VIA chips.  It was CHEAP.  In fact the website for the card still...
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

    Also, because I can't boot from sata, I've been using a boot cd, so that might be the issue with usb not working initially.  Anyway, there are some chips on ebay.  I might as well try.  I'm already pretty deep into this project, what's another $10 and 3 weeks?
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

     God frack it. So the 010 SST is ok but an identical 040 isn't.  OI VEY. And those chips aren't available on reputable sites like mouser.  Gotta order them off ebay from china.  And wait 3 weeks to get the fakes...  YAY I'll keep looking for those two exact chips for now.  Thanks.   --- I...
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

    exactly my thought.  for the record, i bought the same brand, same model, except i got a 040 instead of 010. Im going to pull out my xp setup and see if it works in windows.  at the very least, make sure the card works. damn shame.  I'll keep my ears to the ground on this for the time being.
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

    OK, I finally got the socket from china.  Paid a bit extra for one that shouldn't fail after a few insert/remove cycles.   Anyway, I dropped in the chip, and it worked perfectly.  Well the programmer anyway.  It does not boot in my beige G3.  It does show up in the profiler: Please excuse...
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

    I'll play with it later.  I'm in the middle of 12-hour work days so I just cannot summon the energy right now to do anything.  maybe monday.  :P
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

    meh, i already ordered a nice replacement with a zif socket. I will try again tonight.
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

    well after a few hours of faffing about, my plcc32-dip32 adapter is trashed somehow.  ugg.
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

    Got the sst040 chips yester from mouser.  Some reason they were in a air-tight static bag.  Raised an eyebrow initially.  usually they are just taped closed, but I plowed ahead.  Inside the bag was a moisture sensor, silicone desiccant pack, and a box.  The box was the size of a deck of cards. ...
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

      got my hot air gun out, pulled a socket off a crappy nic and got a socket on the card.  I'll be testing tonight if I screwed anything up.
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

    Yea, I literally got a pile of 320gb sata2 drives, designed for 24/7 surveillance cameras. (new) so they are low power, silent, and quick.  considering I'm only using 1/2 the drive, I'm essentially short stroking the drive.  Performance is great and would only be surpassed by the 0ns seek times...
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    bootable sata, the eternal struggle

    yea, by a large margin.  IIRC the G3 has 16.6 mb/s ide.  So with sata capable of almost 10x that...  yes.  in all ways the matter it will be better.   "real world" on other machines I have, I can only get about 75ish MB/s on the standard pci bus.  Things like video, sound, ethernet, take up...
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