[geeks] SATA on G4 Power Mac (bootable?)

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org>
" 
" On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:45:46PM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
" > Hello all,
" >
" > I've got a couple G4 Macs (450 & 466 MHz), and I want to up the
" > performance a bit. They currently have about a gig or more of RAM, and
" > without investing in a processor upgrade ($200 for a 1 GHz upgrade),
" > I'm wondering if shoving in a PCI SATA controller such as this[0]
" > would give me a meaningful boost in performance - anyone ever use
" > one? I'd like to remove IDE drives and install a couple SATA drives,
" > ideally booting off the SATA drive.

do they still have scsi at the back?  you could thread a cable inside
and use scsi drives...

" The drive in my G4 Digital Audio (733) went out a few months back, I
" replaced it with a 250 gig drive from Frys, the internal IDE (ATA/66?)
" controller wouldn't see the whole disk, so I hooked it up via an
" external firewire case, overall, the box is faster.

wild speculation - the internal suffers from lba48 just like suns of
the u5/u10 era do.
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