Booting Quicksilver with firewire 800

[amishallin]

Since the odds of finding the Sonnet Tempo SATA card is very slim right now i'm looking at other options. Does anyone know if the Sonnet Allegro FW800 PCI/PCI-X card is bootable? OWC still sells external FW 800 drive enclosures I can put an existing SATA drive in.

Currently i'm using a cheap IDE to SATA adaper for a 120GB SATA SSD. This is the same setup as my B&W G3 and Performa computers which works fine... but there has to be better options for the Quicksilver.

 

[Amethyst1]

but there has to be better options for the Quicksilver.

I’d look into a PCI SATA card.

 

[amishallin]

I've looked into PCI SATA cards with little luck. Tried this thing... it worked for a couple days then died (I think). Haven't tried it in my B&W G3.

The Sonnet Tempo SATA X4i looks promising but according to Sonnet it doesn't support booting "at this time." Presumably in favor of their 2 port card which seems to be the holy grail at this point.

 

[amishallin]

Tried the 2 port card I thought was dead in the B&W G3 and it seems to be very much alive. Perhaps there is some kind of hardware incompatibility with the Quicksilver. System profiler identifies it as a FirmTek SeriTec 1S2 card (didn't really identify properly if at all in the Quicksilver).