Xserve G4 Dual 1.3GHz PCI Options?

I just picked up a Dual 1.3GHz G4 Xserve. I was wondering what my PCI options are. I was looking for what exact video cards work. So far I have only came up with the ATI8500 I believe. Is there any SATA cards that work to add external storage? Any info is helpful. I will be running 10.4 server on it with 4 180GB drives.

I had a similar problem when I received my xServe. My xServe is a slightly older xServe (1 GB, Dual), but the video cards should work the same in both servers.
I looked at the ATI 8500, but it was too expensive.
Look on eBay for an ATI 7000
I purchased one at a reasonable price. It works great, although not very powerful. It supports most basic resolutions which is fine for a server. This hardware was never designed for great video and the bus is no way near the performance you would get on a G5 desktop.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8815758623&ru=http://search.e bay.com:80/8815758623_W0QQfromZR40QQfviZ1
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.5)
I also looked into SATA to try and get away from ATA. Stay with the ATA as the cards are really expensive (MetaRAID cards) and the performance on the ATA cards is good and marginally slower than a SATA. They already have (hotswap thanks to Apple), but it is kind of flakey.
If you want external, go firewire 400. You have two ports on the xServe and firewire is much easier (and faster) with OSX than USB. You can get some pretty big firewire drives from Maxtor now, some with built in RAID 0 or RAID 1.
Otherwise, buy up a bunch of older drive holders and add the standard ATA drives when needed.
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Hello there,
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