I've installed the flashed SIL3112 card in my PowerMac G4 MDD, along with a WD Green 1TB drive. I've been able to install Tiger fine, but I notice that booting takes an excruciatingly long time. Specifically, the grey Apple screen just sits there for quite a while, then it finally starts spinning the wheel. After this, everything goes quick and snappy, but that long wait time doesn't seem normal. Anyone got experience with this? Am I supposed to put up with it, or have I forgotten something?
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MDD SATA boot excruciatingly slow
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Have you tried resetting the PRAM? This often does the trick with new hardware additions and long EFI post.
Doing the PRAM reset resulted in the folder icon, now it can't find the OS anymore... oops.
[doublepost=1456319233][/doublepost]Never mind, rebooted it once via Start Up disk off of an OSX disc, now it works fine again. Booting is a bit faster, but not much. Oh well, it works.
[doublepost=1456319233][/doublepost]Never mind, rebooted it once via Start Up disk off of an OSX disc, now it works fine again. Booting is a bit faster, but not much. Oh well, it works.
It might be. I believe I had that problem as well. Probably still do. But because it would not wake I long ago just set my G4 to run at full power and just turn the screens off so I wouldn't know if I still have this issue or not any more.
Sounds right though.
In Tiger, my MDD will hang upon sleep if I don't disconnect my Bluetooth keyboard first.
The USB Bluetooth stick is not fully supported though, may be that's why.
Leopard doesn't have this issue.
I've used flashed 3112 and 3512 with it, no sleep problem.
The USB Bluetooth stick is not fully supported though, may be that's why.
Leopard doesn't have this issue.
I've used flashed 3112 and 3512 with it, no sleep problem.