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Use older ATA drive (as 2nd drive) in new G5?
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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From the Apple "tech specs", it appears that the G5 will be wired only for serial ATA drives? ie. if I wanted to use my "spare" 60G drive from my current G4/800 I'd have to put it in an external firewire case?
Cheers,
Mike
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IIRC IDE/ATA is downward compatible with all the negative consequences: It will slow down the chanel to the ATA spec´s of your old drive, but it will work.
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I'm presuming the wiring itself will be incompatible (7-pin vs the 50?-pin connectors that we are used to).
Mike
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You can't put in internally without adding an ATA card
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Can't you get a Parallel-to-Serial ATA adapter that lets a regular ATA100/133 drive work on a Serial ATA channel? So long as the adapter and parallel ATA cables fit inside the case, there shouldn't be much trouble. I don't think you'd need an ATA controller card at all.
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The Parallel to serial converter will only work if there is room and I betcha there isn't.
Not with the drives on "sleds" for easy removal.
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An adapter would work, but space would be an issue.
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Crap... well I guess that "spare" Firewire case I have might be useful after all.
Thanks for confirming my suspicions. Almost as annoying as the switch from SCSI->IDE was.
Mike
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Almost as annoying as the switch from SCSI->IDE was.
Yup. And unless someone figures out how to cram an IDE controller and a drive or two inside that case, it's going to be FW external drives or just the two S-ATA drives for people who need more space.
I'm sure someone will figure it out when the G5 actually ships.
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