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Maxing out the 9500
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(seriously, I'm terrified of that thing)
I realise you have lots and lots of slots, and you're going for SATA drives anyway, but if you want to save a slot and can stand ATA drives, you could also consider the Sonnet Tempo Trio - Firewire, USB and ATA on one card.
I think I heard from someone on here that SIIG's matching card is Mac compatible too.
Hmm...
I´m upgrading my 9600 right now, too. To me it doesn´t make much sense to use SATA so I took two Sonnet 133 ATA cards, one serving the CD ROM and three disks (80 GB each) and the other one 4 disks (also 80 GB each) to the bottom of the 9600 case by using two double carriers from a G4 system. It runs with a Sonnet G4 800 MHz but with the classic OS solely. I never had much fun in using OS X on an old world machine.
The double carrier system on bottom of the case blocks three or four PCI slots (depending on the height of a hard disk) but as I´m only in need of a high speed ethernet and a SCSI card (for external tape backup devices) this doesn´t bother me that much.
Alltogether this box acts as a local network ShareIP server - I once thought about configuring it as an old world high end audio production system but a gave a QucikSilver a better chance in this: can run classic OS and Mac OS X and bounced to double 1,6 GHz.
J
I´m upgrading my 9600 right now, too. To me it doesn´t make much sense to use SATA so I took two Sonnet 133 ATA cards, one serving the CD ROM and three disks (80 GB each) and the other one 4 disks (also 80 GB each) to the bottom of the 9600 case by using two double carriers from a G4 system. It runs with a Sonnet G4 800 MHz but with the classic OS solely. I never had much fun in using OS X on an old world machine.
The double carrier system on bottom of the case blocks three or four PCI slots (depending on the height of a hard disk) but as I´m only in need of a high speed ethernet and a SCSI card (for external tape backup devices) this doesn´t bother me that much.
Alltogether this box acts as a local network ShareIP server - I once thought about configuring it as an old world high end audio production system but a gave a QucikSilver a better chance in this: can run classic OS and Mac OS X and bounced to double 1,6 GHz.
J
I want a SATA card for my 7500 for the sole reason that I'd like to be able to buy new, quiet disks that'll be useful even if the PowerMac dies and I decide not to get another one... Buying used IDE drives (or used SCSI drives and ->50 pin adaptors) just seems like a bit of a waste when you can get brand new SATA drives for next to nothing.
But if you're looking to upgrade an older machine, especially going to the extent of upgrading the entire drive system and buying a controller card, chances are you aren't going to do it with thrown away parts.
S-ATA cards are cheap. Large S-ATA drives can be had for under $50 from places like NewEgg. IDE/ATA is just, IMO, silly to pursue if you planning on buying all the parts you're going to need anyways.
S-ATA cards are cheap. Large S-ATA drives can be had for under $50 from places like NewEgg. IDE/ATA is just, IMO, silly to pursue if you planning on buying all the parts you're going to need anyways.
And we're back, after a 4+ hour dreadful attempt t oget video. Turns out my one and only monitor, in which 5 computers are sharing, finally kicked off.
Anywho, I got my nice little 15 inch LCDer hooked up. Everything is beautiful.
I have this generic FireWire card I got a few years ago. I think its the exact same one as on the OWC store, but I bought mine from eBay. I read somewhere here that ANY OCHI compatible card will work with OS 8.5+? This is OHCI compatbile, and have it installed in my 9500 running OS 9. However, it's not doing anything. I don't know if I need a driver, as it's generic. System Profiler just lists it as "PCI Card" with nothing specific in the card data/description.
Any ideas?
I suppose that the system recognizes the card, is better than nothing.
Anywho, I got my nice little 15 inch LCDer hooked up. Everything is beautiful.
I have this generic FireWire card I got a few years ago. I think its the exact same one as on the OWC store, but I bought mine from eBay. I read somewhere here that ANY OCHI compatible card will work with OS 8.5+? This is OHCI compatbile, and have it installed in my 9500 running OS 9. However, it's not doing anything. I don't know if I need a driver, as it's generic. System Profiler just lists it as "PCI Card" with nothing specific in the card data/description.
Any ideas?
I suppose that the system recognizes the card, is better than nothing.
