What does everyone think of this SATA controller. It uses an SiI3124 controller, its Mac compatible, and it works in PCI or PCI-X slots (great for when we move to the G5).

Will the Sil3X drivers work with it?

Here's the Directron listing:

http://www.directron.com/hb4618f.html

> it works in PCI or PCI-X slots (great for when we move to the G5).

That's true for all PCI cards that are 3.3 Volt capable (i.e. some PCI 2.1 cards and all 2.2 or greater cards).

> Will the Sil3X drivers work with it?

http://www.morphos-team.net/hardware.html states:

"SiI3x1x two-port cards"

Neither "4-Port" nor "SiI3124" meet this requirement.

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Hi,
why ?
All PowerMac G5 (AGP and PCIe models) have inside SATA for two HD SATA (usable also in mirror/stripe RAID), and also hava IDE for DVD

Disappointing but not a major problem. I'll look at 2 port cards. They're probably cheaper.

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Remind me, when is that?

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Remind you? I'm still waiting on the G4 Powermacs.

The SiI3x1x 2-port SATA driver doesn't work in PMac G4 as of now, this won't change before (and including) 2.6 release most likely.


[ Editiert durch pega-1 an 2010/9/21 3:01 ]

Thanks pega-1. The only SATA card I could find for the Mac other than Habey products was the SoNNeT TSATA PCI SATA Controller Card and I can't find out what the controller chip on that board is anyway.

Right now I'd just settle for the release of 2.6.

> SoNNeT TSATA PCI SATA Controller Card and I can't find out what the
> controller chip on that board is anyway.

"Previous generation eSATA cards had a Marvell chip labeled "88SX5081"."
http://www.sonnettech.com/support/faqs/serialata.html

Thanks Andreas. That definitely nixes that idea. Going back to the project I PM'd you about earlier.

> That definitely nixes that idea.

According to what DanicaTalos wrote in the German section of MZ there're also Sonnet SATA cards for PCI with SiI chip:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7647&forum=18&post_id=80570#80570

It been so long since I started this thread, that I'd pretty much forgotten it and moved on to explore SCSI.
BUT SATA drives are much cheaper and a more practical solution for most MorphOS users. Plus ATA drives are now becoming less common.
Thanks for relaying the information Andreas.
As always, your recall is superb and you've help address a long standing issue.

@Andreas_Wolf

I have a Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA pci card with Sil chip that i've successfully tested in my Pegasos 2.

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Ruud thanks for the report. Pretty much any board with the specced chipset is supported..