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#1 2008-05-07 5:46 am
- lord_uranus
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SATA in a Powermac G4
what's the best way to put a 500gb serial ATA drive in a powermac G4? (mirror doors, 1.2ghz cpu)
I was in a hurry at the parts store, bought a samsung HD in a generic white box and didnt notice til I got home that it's a SATA. Before I bring it back for an exchange I thought I'd take a stab at other options. But as far as I know, my G4 is built to handle only parallel ATA.
I imagine in order to install in in my G4 I would need a special PCI card, right?
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#2 2008-05-07 8:04 am
Re: SATA in a Powermac G4
You would need a Internal Serial ATA PCI Card to slap in your powermac. Sonnet makes a good one called Tempo but they typically cost around 75 bucks.
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#3 2008-05-07 9:00 am
- lord_uranus
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Re: SATA in a Powermac G4
Ahh, I was afraid of that.
Thanks.
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