G5 Dual Core 2.0Ghz and a ATA133 PCI card ?

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G5 Dual Core 2.0Ghz and a ATA133 PCI card ?

Any of you guys know if any PCI ATA133 card will work in a G5 with PCI ? i have a old G5 Dual Core 2.0Ghz i´m trying to build op for a friend. But he also have 2 old ATA drives with lots of stuff he needs and therefor we will have to install a ATA133 PCI card. I have 2 different PC ATA133 cards i need to know if they will work just like that ??? Does the OS X system have the drivers for ATA133 build in ? thx 🙂

Macbook Pro 2.5Ghz Penryn - 4GB ram, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Aug 25, 2008 4:27 PM

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sjøgren Author

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Aug 25, 2008 5:06 PM in response to sjøgren

Forgot to to mengion its a Powermac G5 with PCI slots running 10.4.11 PPC

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The hatter

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Aug 25, 2008 5:09 PM in response to sjøgren

Pick up a $79 Firewire case, or dual case for $109.

You can add an SATA PCI card and Sonnet G5 Jive to add 3 more SATA drives.

ATA has not kept pace with SATA and most people do put their older ATA drives in Firewire.
http://www.macsales.com/firewire

Better off with a fast 640GB SATA drive inside for $83 and more than 2x faster.
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD6400AAKS/

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sjøgren Author

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Aug 25, 2008 5:38 PM in response to The hatter

Hi..

Thx for your replay buddy.. Didn't think of a firewire case.. Ofcause 🙂

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sjøgren Author

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Aug 25, 2008 5:41 PM in response to The hatter

Liste. A totally other question !
About a new graphic card for the same Mac. G5 DC with PCIe ?

I looked at this side on eBay.. Wouuu. Didn't knew that so meny cards was available for Macs.. lol

Check this out and tell me if this is safe. If they will really work.. thx again buddy

Link : http://stores.ebay.com/LOCAL338-ONLINE-STOREMac-Video-CardW0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ20773727QQftidZ2QQtZkm

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japamac

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Aug 26, 2008 2:30 AM in response to sjøgren

Hi-

Please see my responses in your other two threads! 🙂

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