I just installed Morphos on my old G4-500DP Mac. I'm having some issues with that machine and no sound. I have a newer G4-800DP Mac but I have Sonnet SATA controller in it. I believe the controller makes the Mac think it is a SCSI drive. Short of me attempting an install does anyone know if this will work or would I have to install Morphos on an ATA drive?

The Sonnet should be Sil3112 based which is supported with MorphOS3.x.

The only other user with such a card I know of seems to have some minor problems while my unflashed PC card works flawless (but I have to use a CF-card on the IDE bus for the boot: partition).

Short:
Bootb the CD and see if MorphOS sees the SATA-HD.

fmh,
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As Kronos pointed out, you're going to need an IDE boot partition.
But a simple CF or SD to IDE adapter could handle that.

I too have an unflashed PC SATA card and it works perfectly.

@Jim

He has a Sonnet (AKA Mac-compatible SATA-card) so there should be no need for an extra boot-drive.

I have no idea wether Sonnet offered SATA-cards with other chipsets but my QS came with a nameless Mac-SATA+ATA133 card that is not supported under MorphOS.

So again:
Boot the CD and see if MorphOS sees the SATA-HD.

You're right.
I didn't think about that.
I only have Sonnet card I have is a Tempo SATA X4P, which I don't think is supported (and can't be booted from anyway).

Sory Kronos.