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| Posted by: Zypher on 2024-04-02 11:53:27 I currently have a Power Mac G4 Digital Audio M7681LL/A (Quicksilver/Digital Audio), I bought at a thrift store several years back for $60, and am wanting to upgrade and add a few of my external hard drives and put them internal. I am in need of a PCI card with 1 or preferably 2 ide slots on it so that I can add a few more drives to this beast. I also would need to know if the PCI card would support OS 9 - X 10.4 as well as boot into both OS. Does anyone know of any PIC IDE cards that can do the trick? I have seen a few on ebay, but most are asking $200+ for these cards. Thank you in advance, I have included Links for a better visual of what I have and am looking for. -Steve Apple Description of my Mac https://support.apple.com/en-us/112549 Every Mac Description and Photo https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/specs/powermac_g4_733.html PCI Card i am hunting for or similar example: https://www.thebookyard.com/product.php?cPath=91_55_60_61&products_id=5538 | |
| Posted by: Phipli on 2024-04-02 12:02:20 @Zypher Unfortunately Mac bootable PCI IDE cards tend to be expensive. $200 is high, but they're rarely very cheap. It would probably be cheaper to get a SATA card and format a large SATA hard disk with several partitions and copy the IDE disks onto the partitions one at a time. Only problem is that the common type of SATA card that can be flashed have issues with QuickSilvers, for some reason. | |
| Posted by: Zypher on 2024-04-02 12:11:26 Do you know of any SATA cards that are bootable to OS 9? | |
Posted by: Phipli on 2024-04-02 12:20:12Do you know of any SATA cards that are bootable to OS 9? Also expensive, but you can flash PC equivalents... Except the common ones play up in QuickSilvers like I said. You can replace the regulator with a low dropout part. The situation is less than $20 if you are willing to do some soldering and flash a card, or $100 or more if not... Unless you're really lucky and find one for sale listed badly, or in a cheap computer. | |
| Posted by: s_pupp on 2024-04-02 13:16:56 For SATA in OS9, I currently have the Acard AEC-6290M in one Mac, and AEC-6890M in another. For IDE, the SIIG SC-MP4A12 2-Port PCI EIDE Ultra ATA-133/100 Controller for Mac comes up now and then for a reasonable cost. I bought one a couple months ago for less than $30 shipped. BUT! If you want to use it in OS9, you MUST make sure it is an early model. It should look like the picture below. Last year, I ended up with two version 3 cards that work only in OSX.  | |
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