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Bootable Internal SATA Card Mac Pro?
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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I'm thinking about putting 3 SSDs in one of the optical bays of a 1st Gen Mac Pro using a 4 drive 2.5" enclosure and am wondering if anyone knows of a bootable 64-bit snow leopard compatible SATA II PCIe card that could work for this configuration. Ideas? Thanks!
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Ok, did that, don't see any in the 70 there were there any you have in mind there? Thanks!
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Good point. Probably best to give them a call. You know you have two spare SATA ports on the logic board right?
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The motherboard SATA ports do not support Port Multiplication, which he needs for his enclosure.
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Well then call OWC and ask. They have so many of these things one of them is bound to work. I know other places have these things too but they tend not to test them with Macs.
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Some of the HighPoint RocketRAID cards are bootable in a Mac Pro. I don't recommend them because their support sucks. If you can't find any other choices, look here. They list 5 cards as bootable. There is also an unsupported firmware swap which makes their 2314 4-port eSATA card bootable in a Mac Pro.
I've gone to a FirmTek card, which is bootable in a G5 (but not a MacPro). You could contact them, asking if their newest SeriTek/e6G is MacPro-bootable. If booting isn't necessary, that card and their SeriTek/2ME4-E card (4 ports) register as native SATA ports on a Mac. Including in Disk Utility and Apple System Profiler.
The Sonnet cards work OK in a Mac Pro, but are not bootable. I don't know the dope on any of the other brands.
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