S-ATA bootable board for Dual G4 PowerMac?

[Giuanniello]

I know it sounds weird,

I have three MacMini running at home (2010 as a music server, sigh, it hangs all the time, maybe the spinning HD won't make it to play smoothly LossLess files, 2014 i5 used to download stuff and a 2014 i7 maxed with 16GB and 1TB as main machine for my photo archive and editing), a glorious 2011 MBPro which died and resurrected a few times to definitely die, a 2009 27" iMac whose issue was, as well as the MBPro, the video board, a couple Air and, in the storage, the heave and beautiful latest of the G4 PowerMacs.

I tought that if I could upgrade the HDs in the G4 with either big size spinning ones or a small SSD as a boot drive I could use it to scan and store pics and/or as a backup server for the other machines bla bla bla

Question: is there any affordable board which allows boot from a S-ATA drive?


Grazie

p.s. reason I wanna use again that old computer is I have an even older scanner I wish I can use to scan old prints, I know buying a modern cheap usb scanner would solve it all with less hassle and money but why not? The scanner is an Epson GT9500 with a SCSI interface and my Dual G4 already hosts a SCSI card

 

[Project Alice]

Guide to flashing PC SIL3112 SATA cards for Mac

To begin with, hello - I'm new to this board, although I've been a member of the 68kMLA forums for a while. I'm also a long time user of PowerPC Macs. I recently flashed a PC SATA card to use in my PMG4, which I am currently in the process of fully upgrading. I put this guide together for...

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There are also pre-flashed cards on eBay I've used. This one specifically (not my auction)

 

[andysa1966]

I have in my Dual G4MDD a sata 2TB HDD on the ata100 for storage and a 120GB SSD for the OS's on the ata66, both use Manhattan PATA/IDE to SATA adapters available on ebay for around £5.00.

I have my reasons putting the SSD on the slower ata66, I wanted the 2TB at the back location to reduce the heat and obstruction in front the 120mm cpu fan.

 

[TheShortTimer]

I have in my Dual G4MDD a sata 2TB HDD on the ata100 for storage and a 120GB SSD for the OS's on the ata66, both use Manhattan PATA/IDE to SATA adapters available on ebay for around £5.00.

Those Manhattan adapters are fantastic, I'm even using one inside an external IDE FireWire/USB enclosure so that it can read a SATA HDD.

 

[Giuanniello]

Wow, that sounds like a great solution, do they allow also boot?

It would be a way to reutilise that old powerhouse, what a pity that Apple hardware kept going downhill since Gx CPUs

 

[andysa1966]

Wow, that sounds like a great solution, do they allow also boot?

It would be a way to reutilise that old powerhouse, what a pity that Apple hardware kept going downhill since Gx CPUs

Yes they do, i can boot from either OS 9, Tiger or Leopard from the 3 partition 120GB SSD

 

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Wow, that sounds like a great solution, do they allow also boot?

It would be a way to reutilise that old powerhouse, what a pity that Apple hardware kept going downhill since Gx CPUs

I've used about 8 adapters, 4 different types. All of them are bootable.