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Took about 10 seconds to format it and i was up and running. Haven't had any problems yet. $60 seemed a little high, but to be able to have SATA in a old PM G4, i think it's worth every penny. Very happy they included a molex to sata power adapter. But i've only had it running for about 4 hours total. Card installed with out a problem, plugged new drive into it and booted computer. OS X came up and asked me what i would like to do with the new drive.
It was a bit annoying, but manageable. It is pushing two 640 GB sata drives in a mirror RAID using Carbon Copy Cloner running 10.4 tiger.
I'm so happy with the results i'm looking into placing another card into this mac. Each drive has a single huge partition and i managed to install everything without any tech support from anyone.
i have had this card for 3 years in two machines. The second machine this card has been in is a quicksilver 933 Mhz powermac that has native large drive support built in on the motherboard.
Sonnet is expensive but their support is world class and you don't even need to be the original owner to receive this. the first was a G4 dual 450 Mhz Gigabit Ethernet powermac and it pushed a single 500 GB Sata drive nicely as long as i had several 128 GB partitions on the desktop.
Sonnet and their associates helped me set it up.
No issues. Does what it's suppose to do. Adds more SATA interfaces for the system and works like a charm.
The latest version shipped on these contains additions for the G5 models and may cause freezing after sleeping on the MDD Dual processor models without downgrading. I have never had any issues with any of these cards in any Mac G4 from the 500mhz all the way to the last of the G4 MDD models and into the G5 PowerMacsI can tell you that chances are if you are purchasing this for a MDD Dual processor model you need to "downgrade" the firmware to a more compatible version. However I have never had that happen, but the Firmtek support page clearly lists it as a known issue and provides links for the "downgrade firmware"I give this product 5/5 and recommend it to anyone who is looking to step-up there mac to SATA interfaces and the performance that comes with SATA. Having purchased and installed at least 20 or more of these for various G4 macs, I can say that this is a must have for every user who wants to use SATA.This card is actually just a re-branded Firmtek card has extremely good drivers and updates on firmware on the Firmtek page. It has been around since 2003/2004 and is a great sata controller card.
plus syba has horrible customer service too. this card was $75 for only 2 internal @ 1.5gb speed.
works great and well, it actually just works period. i have this setup with 2 seagate 1tb hdd for my server's raid 1 config.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this card, and would've given it a 5 star rating if it'd been about half the price. however, the syba card was a 3.0gb card with 2 internal sata and two esata external for $45.
sonnet LOVES to overprice everything they make, so nothing shocking there. I had a syba card that i'd just bought and returned twice b/c it kept locking up my system [os x 10.5 server & 10.5 dual boot on a dual 1.42ghz ppc g4], causing kernel panics galore, reboot itself for no reason, et al.
returned it the 2nd time and got this sonnet card, which works w/o issue.
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