additional controllers

Got a 160 Gig Maxtor Hardrive for G4 QuickSilver. Only got 127 Gig. Put Sonnet Card in No need to load any software or drivers, Now I get all the space that is supposed to show. 152 Gig. No problems. Rom on current shipping models supports large drives.

Great product!!! love the ATA 133 speeds...my only gripe is I can only use 137 gigs of my 160 gig Hard drive...and it comes with the firmware for OS9.... so you have to upgrade the firmware for OSX.

Also I could only connect 1 lage drive per cable. I tryed connecting 4 137 gig Hard Drives ( 2 per cable ) wouldn't work...

way better than my old ATA 66 though....yippee!

I purchased this controller card over a year ago (2002.) I connected an 80GB hard drive with an 8MB memory buffer on this controller as my secondary disk. The card seemed to work without problems.

I decided to use this faster 80GB hard drive as the primary disk. So I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.2 and installed the operating system on this disk; that is when the problems started. Intermitently it would stop at the grey (hardware) boot screen. Other times it would crash the machine during the initial boot sequence and drop to the Open Firmware prompt, where the only option was to type shutdown; mini-computer sysadmin deja-vu.

I also noticed this controller could only find the HD if connected to IDE channel one. I tried moving the stock HD to this controller, but it couldn't boot either.

After countless installs of the operating system (MacOS X 10.1 and 10.2) and not have it work, I found the latest firmware for this controller fixes problems with hard drives that have an 8MB buffer. Fixed in March 2003, more than a year after the product has been available!

I recently updated the firmware and can now boot 10.2 from it. No problems so far. The firmware update program is only available for MacOS 9.

Be warned if support is important to you.

PS: Note this is an ATA133 IDE controller for the Mac, NOT an SCSI controller.