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Bootable PCI SATA cards for Power Mac G5

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nemesiswar

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So I'm wondering if i can find a list of BOOTABLE SATA PCI cards for Power mac G5 anywhere.
I am looking for SATA II cards on first hand and in best worlds SATA III cards but i doubt those exist.
 
SilverStone EC05 SATA III with Marvell 88SE9130 Chip
Not bootable, but it is a working SATA-III card, unfortunately it is PCIe, so it can be used in the last G5 generation only.
Also, it only works under 10.5 (out of the box!). The card will show up under "serial ata" column in the sys profiler and under PCI-cards.

picture of the card and benchmarks: post #20 http://www.cubeuser.de/showthread.php?t=1456&page=2

(reading is 10-15MB/ faster than SATA-II, but writing drops down to SATA-I speed, sometimes, the user notes, but for applications and stuff, that has to be quickly read, it might be an option).

Kind of, oof-topic, but I guess, when someone will search for G5 SATA-card later, he might find this here and findit useful, if he has one of the last G5s.

Would be interesting to find out, if there is a similar card for PCI-X, though I can't imagine, that SATA-III was even produced with PCI/PCI-X.
 
Cox Orange said:
SilverStone EC05 SATA III with Marvell 88SE9130 Chip
Not bootable, but it is a working SATA-III card, unfortunately it is PCIe, so it can be used in the last G5 generation only.
Also, it only works under 10.5 (out of the box!). The card will show up under "serial ata" column in the sys profiler and under PCI-cards.
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Out of the box it works only with 10.5, but what about 10.4? Is there a way to get it to work? Some driver install?

Bumping old thread that might not get a reply, but I guess it's still worth a try. All for the sake of getting SATA III (and USB 3.0 or 3.1) on the PCIe Late 2005 G5s.
(Currently have 4 SATA II slots via the Sonnet Tempo SATA E4i, with support for drives bigger than 2TB after installing a driver, working on both 10.4/10.5.)
 
I always had a soft spot for Unreal. It came out for MacOS9 but can be coaxed to run on OSX.
 
Jubadub said:
Out of the box it works only with 10.5, but what about 10.4? Is there a way to get it to work? Some driver install?

Bumping old thread that might not get a reply, but I guess it's still worth a try. All for the sake of getting SATA III (and USB 3.0 or 3.1) on the PCIe Late 2005 G5s.
(Currently have 4 SATA II slots via the Sonnet Tempo SATA E4i, with support for drives bigger than 2TB after installing a driver, working on both 10.4/10.5.)
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The card runs under 10.5, because 10.5 came with a generic AHCI-driver. 10.4 did not. One can assume, that all "PC/windows" cards that support the AHCI standard will work under 10.5.

The SATA-III card is not much faster than a card by Delock 70137 with SiliconImage 3132 chip, when reading and even slower when writing. You're not getting more than 250MB/s out of the PCIe connection on the G5 anyway, so the Digitus SATA-II might be the better choice or a combination of both.

All credit goes to the user flyproductions over at cubeuser.de ! All remarks by him. (I just played your translator and summed it up).

There is still the option of flashing a card for use under 10.4, if it has to be bootable.
 
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Cox Orange said:
The card runs under 10.5, because 10.5 came with a generic AHCI-driver. 10.4 did not.
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to be pedantic 10.4.11 did come with a generic AHCI driver however AFAIK its intel only sadly, I still want to see someone boot 10.4.11 from a PCIe AHCI SSD in a MP3,1 or something can you imagine how stupidly quick that would be :D

luckily for us at least the 10.5.x AHCI driver was compiled as a universal binary :)
 
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The card runs under 10.5, because 10.5 came with a generic AHCI-driver. 10.4 did not. One can assume, that all "PC/windows" cards that support the AHCI standard will work under 10.5.
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Has anyone confirmed any others?

Cox Orange said:
SNIP

There is still the option of flashing a card for use under 10.4, if it has to be bootable.
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Which chipsets need flashing for 10.4?
 
For experimentation and cos I had 2 cards lying around, I popped a generic ASM1061 PCIE card into my G5. It wont boot as it sees the drives as External (presumably uses the generic AHCI kext) but it allows me to add 2 more drives. I plan to RAID two HDDs and use those for storage.
 
I didn't see him saying it booted but I think my 2nd Asm1061 card is that model where you select internal or external ports with jumpers. If you can link to where he says it boots, I'll try mine tomorrow or more likely Friday
 
Methanoid said:
I didn't see him saying it booted but I think my 2nd Asm1061 card is that model where you select internal or external ports with jumpers. If you can link to where he says it boots, I'll try mine tomorrow or more likely Friday
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See posts #10 and #15. He claims that the ASM1061 is bootable (this in the context of a thread about a card for a G5) and in the latter post claims he boots an SSD from that card on his Quad. It smells like BS to me, to be honest. As far as I know, there is no support for any SATA controller in OF apart from the ones in the PowerMac G5.

If you could identify that controller and found a card with the same one on it, if one exists, perhaps that might be a starting point.
 
weckart said:
See posts #10 and #15. He claims that the ASM1061 is bootable (this in the context of a thread about a card for a G5) and in the latter post claims he boots an SSD from that card on his Quad. It smells like BS to me, to be honest. As far as I know, there is no support for any SATA controller in OF apart from the ones in the PowerMac G5.

If you could identify that controller and found a card with the same one on it, if one exists, perhaps that might be a starting point.
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OK well my ASM card looks same so will test it. But according to that thread 99% of cards WILL boot... (right)... But I wonder if he had his initial boot on internal SATA and didnt realise it was then passing control to PCIE card.

I dont know.. I have two ASM1061s to try booting from. The Sil3132 are too old and expensive to buy to test.. Friday I'll test
 
Methanoid said:
OK well my ASM card looks same so will test it. But according to that thread 99% of cards WILL boot... (right)... But I wonder if he had his initial boot on internal SATA and didnt realise it was then passing control to PCIE card.

I dont know.. I have two ASM1061s to try booting from. The Sil3132 are too old and expensive to buy to test.. Friday I'll test
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I am guessing something similar. Something like OpenCore for PPC would help a lot with stuff.
 
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