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A quick little update to this madness ... Tried attaching the G4 800 SSD to the external port on the RHC SATA card in G4 450 yesterday to see if it would be seen there. It wasn't. Shut the computer down overnight, leaving the SSD connected and powered on. Booted the G4 450 this morning, SSD...

Update ... StarTech IDE ---> SATA bridgeboard vs. RHC 3112 SATA card flashed with dosdude's firmware in the G4 450 Dual (Gigabit). The drive is a 120GB OWC Mercury 3G SSD. StarTech bridgeboard: RHC 3112 SATA card:

What the RHC card doesn't do however is recognize a second drive when it's attached to the external port. Not sure if that's an issue with the card itself ... or with the drive I tried to attach. And still having lots of trouble with the SSD I'm trying to attach to the SeriTek 1SE2 in the...

Interesting. Yeah ... seems to me when I tested it on the 7600 here you could set the capture settings to 640 x 480 and it was getting that ... even if it was having trouble recording it to disk. Would have to retest it to be sure though. No idea on the various Wings card and what Apple did...

Got the RHC SATA card installed in the G4 450 Dual, boots with no problem. Moved the connection for the 120 GB OWC Mercury 3G SSD - which was connected via a StarTech IDE ---> SATA bridgeboard to the G4's IDE bus - over onto to the RHC card ... which yielded a very substantial increase in...

Likely relevant ... at least as far as the generic Chinese cards I got from RHC and then flashed goes. I moved the one that was in the Quicksilver into the G5 2.0 Dual and will probably stick the other one in the G4 450 Dual (Gigabit) and see how they fare in those machines. Originally was...

It would seem so ... given that they claim compatibility. I do have to say that I find FirmTek's implementation of - I guess it's the whole eSATA/hot-swap thing ? - just a little weird. It seems like the card protests when volumes are unmounted via an app ... like when using Disk Utility to...

Yeah ... Interestingly enough, I just pulled an actual SeriTek 1SE2 from FirmTek out of the G5 2.0 Dual and stuck it the G4 800 Dual. Same "version" of firmware as in the cheap Chinese cards from RHC that I flashed last night I believe. Boots up fine (off the OS X backup hdd on the built-in...

A pair of those RHC cheap Chinesium SATA cards came in the other day and last night I pulled the "SATA RAID" stickers of the chips and had a look. They both appeared to be AM29F010 series so I popped them in the 7600 and used dosdude's compressed ROM and his modified flasher utility. Both...

Got the iMac G5's malfunctioning hdd replaced so here's the numbers for that one. iMac G5 @ 1.9 GHz, 4.5GB, 250 GB SPCC SSD on the built-in SATA bus:

Couple more: G4 800 Dual, OS 9.2.2, 1.5GB, 372GB Hardware RAID 0 array on an ACARD 6880: This one kind of surprised me: G4 450 Dual, OS 10.4.11, 2GB, 137 GB Software RAID 0 array on an ACARD 6260 using OS X's striping function: Probably not all that surprising though ... I think the...

... certainly not with the power cord unplugged ? Seriously though, I have no idea ... and, from what I've seen of your posts, I'm guessing that you have a far better idea about the actual answer to that question than I. Here's what I do know though: Every Apple manual for a Power Mac that I...

Mac Mini, Late 2012 to the 2 drive 16TB array in that OWC case configured as RAID O via Thunderbolt:

Nope ... just the largest size Xbench will test with apparently: Would have rather used a larger size ... not that it would probably make a ton difference. But who knows ? The bus speed was a big part of the appeal ... :giggle: : The bus speed is being misreported in the above images...

I'm sure curious. :giggle:

G5 Dual 2.7Ghz Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11, OWC Electra 3G 240GB SSD, on the G5's built-in (internal) SATA: Sequential Uncached Write: 121.00 MB/sec [256K blocks] Sequential Uncached Read: 127.43 MB/sec [256K blocks] G5 Dual 2.7Ghz Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11, SPCC 500GB SSD (boot drive/partition), on...

G5 Dual 2.7Ghz Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11, using a pair of 2GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm spinners in a 4TB RAID 0 configuration, housed in an OWC Elite Pro Dual eSATA/USB hardware RAID case, connected via eSATA to a Seritek/2SE4 SATA controller in PCI-X slot 3: Sequential Uncached Write: 154.77...

Have been pretty lax about it myself over the years ... but I've gotten more cautious about it lately ... particularly with all the funkiness I've seen on the two Power Surge machines.

You pulling the AC power cord to the PSU while you're doing that PCI card swapping ?

BTW - that BTV Pro software looks pretty nice ... (y)