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

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 06:59:01PM -0500, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " 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...

They haven't had SCSI onboard for a while.

> " 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.

Most probably.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org