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Mar 5, 2011 9:54 PM in response to Mariusz12by japamac,the only thing I get is a question mark on start up.
That means an OS can't be found.
The drives do have OS X installed on them, correct?
Try selecting a startup drive at boot by holding the Option key while starting.
Select the drive/volume from the Startup Manager screen and click the Right arrow. -
Mar 6, 2011 6:07 PM in response to Mariusz12by Mariusz12,The OS is installed on the drive. It is a boot drive from slot 1 in hard drive bay . It just won't boot using SeriTek card. When I restart and hold option key, the screen shows no drive.
I tried to use other pcie slot, but no luck.
The card does everything it should exept booting.
I just wondered if anyone has had any luck booting using this card. -
Mar 6, 2011 6:27 PM in response to Mariusz12by japamac,It is a boot drive from slot 1 in hard drive bay
So, what housing is used to hold/power the drive and provide the eSATA connection? -
Mar 6, 2011 6:38 PM in response to Mariusz12by Mariusz12,The drive is still in upper bay and gets power from there.
I ran "esata to sata" cable from the drive, which is inside the case, to the FirmTek's esata ports outside. -
Mar 6, 2011 9:52 PM in response to Mariusz12by japamac,So you're trying to use the Firmtek card as your sole boot source?
I don't think it works that way.
Is the Firmtek card properly reported in the System Profiler?
Does the profile list the driver as installed?
I notice in the user guide that"the Apple System Preferences/Startup Disk setting is used to select a PPC boot disk".
This possibly indicates that the Startup Manager won't work, and the drive must be selected while booted to a running OS.
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Mar 6, 2011 10:38 PM in response to Mariusz12by Mariusz12,You are the best.
It worked.
I selected the drive in system preferences as a start up disk, and booted from selected drive after restart.
The reason I wanted to do that, is that i wanted to see if there would be a difference in read and write speeds when using faster sata II.
Many thanks. -
Nov 2, 2012 10:49 PM in response to Mariusz12by MDBfromvenice,Question for Mariusz12..
How is your system working so far? I am running a G5 Quad Mac OS X(10.5.8) same as you I believe
I too have installed the Seritek/2ME4-E SATA controller card , so far all is well.
I ran a SATA - eSATA cable from just outside the PCIe slot looped back thru to connect to the SATA HDD in drive bay "A". Once selected ( thru "Startup Disk" pref) it now always boots from the selected disk.
I replaced the ATA100 DVD drive with a newer SATA model (connected to the G5's onboard SATA controller) as SeriTek claims their card will not support optical drives.
My next test is to purchase a SSD and see if it will take advantage of the SeriTek's faster SATA speed.