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Big Problems with Tempo Trio ATA/133
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Chicago, IL
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Alright got a G4 AGP w/ OWC G4 @ 1.4ghz. Everything has been fine until I added this ATA card, it has caused me nothing but headaches, first and foremost, on waking for sleep everything is frozen, USB doesn't power back up. Secondly I can't eject any of my removable media!!! What is going on!! I apologize for my over reacting, but I am just very pissed off right now. When I plug in everything else into the onboard ATA everything is fine...I'm about a minute from removing the unit and sending it back to where it came from.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Japan
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Can always try a PCI Hub (See link below), most USB periphrials do have problems with sleep when connected to any PCI USB card, but we really need more details about the media you are talking about (FW or USB?) and what doesn't power up to be of any help. The CPU may be the problem too, if it is overclocked, check that and the fireware on the card, latest available? In any case you will have to do some basic diagnostics to eliminate the chaff and find the real problem. Good Luck
http://www.geethree.com/multiport/multiport.html:)
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Chicago, IL
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Well the removable media I am talking about are Zip Disks and CDs, when I plug my DVD/CD-Rom Drive and Zip into the Trio Card it won't eject! When I try to eject the Zip or CD the light on the drive just stays solid. The USB hub is actually attached to the onboard USB on my G4, not the PCI USB, so I'm not sure why that wouldn't power back on, when it works fine without the card.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Chicago, IL
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Well I returned the card today, it wasn't worth the $140 I spent on it. It would not let my computer go into deep sleep and was just very disapointing in general. I recommend that everyone stays away from this card. But while I'm at it, can somebody recommend me a good ATA 133 card for the mac? I hear ACARD (?) based chipsets are good...this sonnet one was based off the Promise chipset.
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Utah
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I have 2 ATA cards in my quicksilver, one Sonnet ATA133 card, and a Acard 6880M ATA 133 RAID card (currently running 2 drives but not in raid mode). Both have worked like a charm. I originally had 2 WD 120SE drives striped in a hardware RAID as my boot drive on the 6880M, but after a year of that things were getting flaky, so when I went to 10.3 I reverted to just normal ATA use. (The striped RAID system was blazing fast tho!)
Regardless, the cards are great, and I've had no problems in both 9 & X.
Of note, since I have 4 WD120SE drives in this machine (and a stock 40 on the System bus) When I first installed Panther I tested with 2 drives on the 6880M in hardware RAID, then 2 drives on the other non raid card as another software RAID, and then super software RAID'ed the two 240GB raids into one mega 480GB uber-RAID. Buggy, and not practical, but man did everything scream. I reverted to the normal setup above after a day though.....
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