PCI SATA card for Blue & White?

[jimjimx]

Here’s a ATA 133 pci card that works in 9 and 10...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Acard-Ultra-ATA-100-133-Bootable-PCI-Card-for-Apple-Power-Macintosh-Computers/323758761683?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item4b6186a6d3:g:RJQAAOSw3S1cnvoY&enc=AQADAAAB0KX%2FKt4E1xf3SDqEdBclaYYrfzgBmMxUR0JUbX%2FFOUomfcdQXH14on6A30Q2BPSSZznnnUGZM%2B4KDm9MiVLp4tYgAYGB2z6XKL%2F87AmoxCmbfl%2Fvri2oyJj8vpkM0WqnuqD53r0Q7egqZFpQVp%2B4EZmI0klf0oFBhuti9YKDJxbZB42xmA1MBXHRjSVbfw2optUDvqcpdLRABiYYigWadC9Vrvha024ZbJy9inYdudEKsn02%2B4g43No1i4Bz6H3pO5bl16wcELRH38Vyj0dAExnrwQjFy%2B0rn28CswPoPGp5zmClbhyzx6h65gjBctr4gPgr%2BO1vCDiKnFoew5bbCas2w6Gwna3NXbLfBzUSTrvVZqRvTxiCdvB6cJsmKqcuQNiItlCE0B2kdhuz3B4HIQnwLEQIgtyDr3VGB7ryYgt0ltdjiT8C5nKPVP9Qte5TedotBBX2okRMkxQPryfotDPkCisQNmkJwaKuKFCDzTps7UvqSY5zr9OwcZYD5OF2w1OhOIbtmgiU%2Fg5Zrk%2FxbcM7A6pB0Hd%2FYrOwSyatdpURizU%2BYNfqBSK6VPj1UImhNGZSf64p1qk1fErUrZuz4PQ8Ad7salJykQcSgGrH%2Fgji&checksum=3237587616838c2ff063f2b14c5190e01be80f39e2db

 

[mraroid]

But can you boot from this card?

 

[trag]

But can you boot from this card?

The M suffix means it is a Macintosh card.  The Acard products are bootable on the Mac.  They're pretty solid.

 

[jimjimx]

The M suffix means it is a Macintosh card.  The Acard products are bootable on the Mac.  They're pretty solid.

I agree. Acard that ends in M, is for Me-axe (Apple Macintosh, not Microsoft, .... that’s how Microsoft people pronounce it).

if the model # is xxxxxxM, it’ll work when you build it into your “macs”

 

[mraroid]

At one time I used my MDD with eyeTV to record and watch TV. Then my MDD died and I wasn’t in the best financial condition to replace it. The Elgato manual said I needed a minimum of a G4 and USB 2.0. Didn’t have it but I had a B&W G3 with a 1.1ghz upgrade and a USB 2.0 card. That worked out very well

I did a Mystic and a Takky. I had planned on doing one with the motherboard from a tray loading iMac. It’d fit in the CC case. Have a box with the parts for the conversion but never found the time. As I get older spare time is getting to be a rare item

So Waynestewart....  It souds like that G3 1.1Ghz cpu is just going to waster sitting in your

 

[mraroid]

Thanks all for the information.

Can it only boot to a early version of OSX, or can it also boot to 9.2.2?

mraroid

 

[waynestewart]

So Waynestewart....  It souds like that G3 1.1Ghz cpu is just going to waster sitting in your

Well, when you have over 100 computers and you're tied up with work or kids 14-16 hours a day, 7 days a week then they don't get a lot of use. However I'm planning on cutting back on work so around Sept or Oct I can start taking an occasional day off. On the plus side there's also the excitement of rediscovering hardware I've forgotten I had.

 

[mraroid]

Thanks all for the information.

Can it only boot to a early version of OSX, or can it also boot to 9.2.2?

mraroid

Bump.  No one knows?  My B&W can boot to a early OSX, but not directly to 9.22.  Is a card even made to do this?

mraroid

 

[Cory5412]

It should work, but if your blue-and-white won't run OS9 for some reason, but it will run OS X, I suspect something else weird is going on. What happens when you try to boot 9.2.2? (Or, if you have another thread on that issue, please link to it, so we don't spread the effort across two threads.)

 

[omidimo]

@mraroid The Acard 6280M card supports OS X and OS 9 boot drives. Acard even advertised it as having 8.5 support. Sonnet sold some rebadged versions of this card in the early 2000s along side their Promise derived ones. In fact Sonnet was selling a lot of rebadged products; their PCI SATA cards were all derived from the FirmTek/SeriTek cards. 

 

[trag]

I have also used the 6280M with 7.6.1.   It works just fine.

 

[supernova777]

the 6290m is exactly the same as the 6280m but with 2x sata ports instead of ATA connectors; unfortunately can only support 2 drives instead of the 4 supported by the ata version