So using a SATA card is about 3x as fast as running off the PATA buss, provided your HD is fast enough to saturate the SATA-1 connection. SATA-1 is rated at 1.5 Gbps, which in PATA terms would be ATA-187, or about 140 MB/s actual.
So a new SATA HD will saturate your ATA-66 buss across the entire HD. The typical new HDD today can do 150-250 MB/s at the beginning of the drive, falling in half by the end of the drive. So while ATA-66 claims 66MB/s, actual throughput is 3/4 of that: 50 MB/s. Your ATA-66 interface will be the bottleneck.ĪTA (parallel or serial) loses 25% of bandwidth to overhead (commands, error checking, etc). Your QS has ATA-66 for the HD buss (-33 for the optical buss), while the SATA-IDE bridge will be rated at ATA-133. I do not want to clean drive until all new start up disks verified.Īny help with the Tiger DVD and where to best look for drives would be astounding! I cannot say of the integrity of 10.3 or 80 meg drive in the G4 so fun down the road.
#MAC G4 QUICKSILVER ZIP#
After 20 years, cannot remember how long G3 took, however my Mac SE blows the doors off the G4 in booting off old SCSI Zip Drive Thanks to all who had anything to add to 9.2.2 project!Īs is, the mac is taking about 2-3 minutes to boot. Get fan for PS and rebuild down the road.įind second IDE drive or SATA adapter that allow booting if prices are reasonable.įind Tiger DVD for this machine. LOL, starting to feel like a vet with a run over dog. During check out, fan on the Radeon GPU started making a racket. An air compressor to blow out dust wads and some teflon oil got the fans running to check other things out. fans are seized up with the seller running it like he did not know a thing about the fans.
I will be replacing high time fans, drives and OS down the road. So, I could not resist the cheap G4 in the subject. I was not a happy camper and apple did not give a shit either after several heated phone calls.and the one time I did not buy from Apple "mom and pop" store 60 miles away. Ok, back in the mac after my bitter departure from all things apple after troubleshooting my then new B&W REV 1 for HD corruption then finding out the Rev 2 boards were out.
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