[3rdObjective]

I've been looking at this product and noticed that it says you have to plug it into an additional power source. Has anyone purchased this and know what they are talking about? Do you have to provide an external source? Give up one of the internal drive power sources? I couldn't find any installation docs on the ati site.

Thanks.

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by 3rdObjective:
I've been looking at this product and noticed that it says you have to plug it into an additional power source. Has anyone purchased this and know what they are talking about? Do you have to provide an external source? Give up one of the internal drive power sources? I couldn't find any installation docs on the ati site.

Thanks.

Typically you can run this off the power for the optical drive.

[olePigeon]

I don't know how it works with the G5, but traditionally the power cable(s) that runs to your peripherals have extra plugs. You'd just plug it in there.

[andrewbw]

The 9800 needs more power than the PCI bus can supply. It has a molex connector on the card (the same type of connector on the back of most PATA hard drives or optical drives). In any G4-based machine, you simply plug a free pigtail from the power supply into this connector.

In the G5, only the optical drive uses a molex connector (SATA hard drives used a special backplane connector that combines power and data). The 9800 comes with a Y-splitter for this connector and an extension cable. Unplug the power cord from the back of the optical drive, connect it to the splitter. Plug one end of the splitter back into the optical drive, the other into the 9800. Done.

-A.