Sonnet Tempo SATA card not reporting

[jbarley]

I've installed a Sonnet Tempo Sata card in my dual 1.42 MDD and it boots and runs just fine with a 128GB SSD, no problems.
Funny thing is though that system profiler does not see it and reports this...
"This system does not contain any Serial-ATA devices. If you have any Serial-ATA devices installed, please check that they are connected and powered on."

 

[Altemose]

Does the card itself show under PCI?

 

[jbarley]

Does the card itself show under PCI?

Yes this seems to be what it is reporting in slot #4 which is where it is located.
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SeriTek/1S2 v. 5.3.1b1, 11/02/07, 23:24:45:
Name: Seri-Tek1S2
Type: ata
Driver Installed: Yes
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-4
Vendor ID: 0x1095
Device ID: 0x3112
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1095
Subsystem ID: 0x3112
ROM Revision: 5.3.1.1S2
Revision ID: 0x0002
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Anyhow no bid deal, it does boot and run and adds just that little bit more to the overall performance.

 

[bunnspecial]

Here's an interesting tidbit-

I have a bootable A-card branded ATA PCI card. It will work(as far as I know) in all PCI Macintoshes, has two ATA-133 busses, and has no drive size limits or other weird problems sometimes seen in Mac ATA buses(i.e. 128gb caps, 8gb limits on the OSX partition in OWR Macs, etc).

In any case, the last time I used this card I was booting Tiger on my 9600. It showed up as a SCSI card and the drives showed up as Parallel SCSI devices.

 

[LightBulbFun]

to further add onto what bun has said The SATA card I flashed using the guide on here shows up as an ATA Device not a SATA device. I would check ATA devices and SCSI Devices in system profiler see if your SSD shows up there

 

[jbarley]

My SSD only show up in Disk Utility, and it reports an ATA connection type.
But what the h&ll, it works.

 

[bunnspecial]

But what the h&ll, it works.

I've reached that point many, many times.

 

[eyoungren]

Yeah, mine is a $10 Windows/PC SATA card that I flashed using @harrymatic's directions. Reports only on the ATA bus just like LightBulbFun (Fan ).

 

[for this]

My SSD only show up in Disk Utility, and it reports an ATA connection type.
But what the h&ll, it works.

That's perfectly normal for that card.