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Need an OS X IDE controller
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Hi all,
I'm going to start on new DVD projects and I need to add another hard drive to my Mac (AGP G4 733 SuperDrive). I need an ATA IDE card that doesn't require booting into OS 9 like the siig card. Any help on this? Thanks.
Mike
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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I use my Sonnet tempo card constantly and exclusively in OSX. no problems at all. B&W G3.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Is that the $100 card? Why are they so damn expensive? The PC ones are like $25.
Mike
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by starman:
<strong>Is that the $100 card? Why are they so damn expensive? The PC ones are like $25.
Mike</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">I've wondered that myself. The cheapest one I've found is at <a href="http://www.owc.com" target="_blank">www.owc.com</a> and is around $70 (although I think for $80 you get the ATA133 model which you need for drives bigger than 160GB, somebody correct me if I'm wrong on that).
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by starman:
<strong>Is that the $100 card? Why are they so damn expensive? The PC ones are like $25.
Mike</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Most PC IDE cards need firmware changes to run on a Mac, which don't exist, and likely never will. These guys sell enough cards for PC's that they don't need to spend money just to get a few random Mac sales.
I found this out after I bought a Maxtor IDE card, and figured out it wouldn't work in my Smurfy G3. <img border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" title="" src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" />
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Screw that. I'll swap out the drive myself with a different DVD project hard drive. I'm not dropping that much cash for a silly firmware update.
Mike
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Join Date: Dec 1999
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You need an ATA/133 card to use any drive over 137GB, this was a limit of the older ATA interface. The newer chipsets of ATA/133 cards can handle any size drive (for all intentensive purposes) The new limits are like a million times bigger then current drive sizes. Check out this: <a href="http://pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/size_GB128.htm" target="_blank">137GB Limits to IDE drives</a>
It's a little dated but the important info you need is there.
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