Any suggestions on IDE to SATA adapters for a g4 MDD?

[sfp1954]

The StarTech adapter works great in my G4 350 AGP (Sawtooth). Tried two different drives. It will only boot (OS 9 at least) off a < 128GB drive, but OS 9.2.2 recognized a 240GB drive as well when it was set to slave.

Drives:

• Kingston 240GB SSDNOW V300
• Patriot 120GB Burst Elite

A boot volume/partition for OS9 should be no larger than 160 GB. Otherwise the partition will get corrupted. Are you using the ATA100 bus or the ATA133 bus on the MDD?

 

[thisisamigaspeaking]

A boot volume/partition for OS9 should be no larger than 160 GB. Otherwise the partition will get corrupted. Are you using the ATA100 bus or the ATA133 bus on the MDD?

G4 350 AGP (Sawtooth)

Was replying to @MBongo and @nomarkup and anyone else talking about Sawtooth.

 

[sfp1954]

Was replying to @MBongo and @nomarkup and anyone else talking about Sawtooth.

Sawtooth is limited 128GB on the IDE bus.

 

[thisisamigaspeaking]

Sawtooth is limited 128GB on the IDE bus.

Yes, that's what I said. It actually seemed to work other than to boot with, which makes me suspect it is a boot rom issue rather than OS or hardware.

 

[tma53204]

Hey- hoping someone can help.

I've got an 1999 PowerMac G4 Sawtooth with its original 20gb IDE drive that really sings. I purchased a new StarTech IDE2SAT2 red adapter with a retired 120GB Kingston SATA SSD (SH103S3/120G, SATA Rev 3.0 (6Gb/s), backward compatible to SATA Rev 2.0 (3Gb/s), SandForce® SF-2281) but when I install it, nothing happens. The Mac powers up, my screen gets a signal to wake it, but literally nothing after that. No chimes, no Mac on the screen. Just black.

At first I thought the drive was an issue, but I was able to plug it into a generic USB>SATA cable, connected to Mac (running off of the old IDE drive), and the Mac saw the SSD. I formatted it, and was able to clone the IDE>SSD. So my SSD should be good to go.

I tried unplugging the IDE CD and iOmega drives thinking for some reason they might be causing a conflict, but no, no change. I moved the SSD/StarTech adapter to the IDE cable that was previously connected to the CD. No difference.

I've tried all of the jumper settings on the StarTech, but I started with MASTER. No difference.

I tried plugging in a known-good 500GB Barracuda SATA HDD to the StarTech. Nothing.

I got on the line with StarTech chat support. (Wish I could get that hour back. The computer is older than any of their chat techs.) They suggested the adapter was defective and to swap it, which I did with the seller. (Staples). Got replacement today. Same issue.

MacOs 9.2

I must be missing something. WTF?

A couple years late on this topic, but I figure it might help someone who runs into the same issue that's described above... I ran into the same issues using the same equipment... Same problem with os9 not seeing the ssd... The solution is loading the osx installer disk by holding c during startup... Then from there you can initialize, partition, and format the ssd in the osx disk utility... You can also check a box to add the os9 drivers in that disk utility when doing so... From there you can install os9.2.2... Hope this helps the maybe one person who looks for this information in the future...