SCSI/IDE/Firewire hard drive?
Hi all,
I've got a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 2002, which has, I think, an ATA/66 bus, Firewire 400 and 64bit PCI slots. How do I find out for sure that the controller can only support up to ATA/66?
I've got a Cheetah U320 SCSI hard drive lying around spare. The boot hard drive I have in the mac right now is an ATA/100 IDE drive connected to the on-board IDE bus. I have a firewire hard drive enclosure.
So, my question is, to speed up the computer in general, should I buy an U320 SCSI controller, which will be expensive, use the SCSI hard drive as boot drive; or put the ATA/100 IDE drive in the firewire enclosure and use that as boot drive; or just leave the current boot drive as it is now?
Thanks very much for your help in advance!
Regards - Piers
I've got a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 2002, which has, I think, an ATA/66 bus, Firewire 400 and 64bit PCI slots. How do I find out for sure that the controller can only support up to ATA/66?
I've got a Cheetah U320 SCSI hard drive lying around spare. The boot hard drive I have in the mac right now is an ATA/100 IDE drive connected to the on-board IDE bus. I have a firewire hard drive enclosure.
So, my question is, to speed up the computer in general, should I buy an U320 SCSI controller, which will be expensive, use the SCSI hard drive as boot drive; or put the ATA/100 IDE drive in the firewire enclosure and use that as boot drive; or just leave the current boot drive as it is now?
Thanks very much for your help in advance!
Regards - Piers
PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 2002, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
