Serial ATA troubles

I am having trouble getting my XP install to see my Serial ATA HDD...? Help please

You're posting in the incorrect forum this is the via 32bit forum you should be posting in this forum.
I can still give you a hand though firstly forget about the via drivers you need these drivers you have a promise sata raid controller on your board. Secondly make sure that it's enabled in the bios, and lastly right after the post screen(i.e. the memory & cpu speed screen) there should be a prompt for the promise raid controller that should show the drive then a key to press to enter the utility once inside that you need to figure out how to create a raid array choose raid 0 or performance setting.

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Error while scanning for Serial-ATA devices.

There was an error while scanning for Serial-ATA devices. I'm not sure how to trouble shoot this. I believe a secondary drive in bay 2 died.

I also have just began to hit this issue.
I have 4 2T enterprise class WD drives in a raid 1+0 (or was it 0+1) config.
Device Model: WDC WD2002FYPS-01U1B1
One disk (disk0 in bay 2) keeps disappearing. Completely. /dev/disk0 and /dev/rdisk0 vanish.
If I look at "about this mac" / "More Info" / "Serial-ATA" I get the "error while scanning ...".
If I reboot, the offending disc comes back and the raid volumes start rebuilding.
The SMART status is (reported to be) fine.
I use the 'smartmon' tools and look at the extended SMART status and the values of the counters all looks the same as the other drives. I can run an extended offline test, which takes forever to execute. disk 1 and 3 eventually finish with success (it writes this status into a SMART log area on the disc).
Disk 2 and 0 take longer. I image this is because 2 is being read to resilver 0. Currently, I am running with disk0 absent again, and disk 2s test did not complete. It claims it was aborted by the host, so I imagine the one on disk0 will claim the same after I reboot.
My system is under extended AppleCare until 16 Jan 2011, so if I can determine that this is a disc controller error, I can get it fixed. The drives have a 5 year warrantee, and are less than 1yr old, so they are covered. I just need to figure out what the issue is.
I will now reboot and recover disk0 and see if perhaps there is anything recorded in the SMART log.
There is nothing in kernel.log specific to disk0. I include the log extract here for posterity. The "speed" volume is not raid 0+1, just striped, which is why it gets aborted.
Dec 21 23:30:26 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::restartSet - restarting set "sys_2" (C398B450-28A3-4C1D-A6A8-5B617661789D).
Dec 21 23:30:26 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMirrorSet::rebuild complete for set "sys_2" (C398B450-28A3-4C1D-A6A8-5B617661789D).
Dec 22 04:17:22 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::restartSet - restarting set "usr_2" (4EA5DD68-D6D0-4CF3-A741-BFBC5ECE8A76).
Dec 22 04:17:22 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMirrorSet::rebuild complete for set "usr_2" (4EA5DD68-D6D0-4CF3-A741-BFBC5ECE8A76).
Dec 22 05:23:16 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:23:30 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 9722C38E-DFF9-468F-8DE5-809432493168
Dec 22 05:23:44: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:23:44 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:24:14: --- last message repeated 4 times ---
Dec 22 05:24:19 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:24:56: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Dec 22 05:24:56 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:25:17: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:25:17 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 9722C38E-DFF9-468F-8DE5-809432493168
Dec 22 05:25:31: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:25:31 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on EB932B0E-8476-480C-BBD4-53A9A77D9FEF
Dec 22 05:25:45: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:25:45 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:26:15: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Dec 22 05:26:21 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:26:51: --- last message repeated 4 times ---
Dec 22 05:27:12 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:27:33: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:27:26 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 9722C38E-DFF9-468F-8DE5-809432493168
Dec 22 05:27:40: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:27:40 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:28:24: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:28:24 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 9722C38E-DFF9-468F-8DE5-809432493168
Dec 22 05:28:39: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:28:39 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:29:14 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::completeRAIDRequest - error 0xe00002ca detected for set "usr_2" (4EA5DD68-D6D0-4CF3-A741-BFBC5ECE8A76), member 3C6E9EA4-831A-4
57A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25, set byte offset = 222462894080.
Dec 22 05:29:14 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::recover() member 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25 from set "usr_2" (4EA5DD68-D6D0-4CF3-A741-BFBC5ECE8A76) has been marked
offline.
Dec 22 05:29:14 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::restartSet - restarting set "usr_2" (4EA5DD68-D6D0-4CF3-A741-BFBC5ECE8A76).
Dec 22 05:32:38 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 9722C38E-DFF9-468F-8DE5-809432493168
Dec 22 05:33:22: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:33:22 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 9722C38E-DFF9-468F-8DE5-809432493168
Dec 22 05:34:06: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:34:06 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 9722C38E-DFF9-468F-8DE5-809432493168
Dec 22 05:34:53: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:34:53 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::completeRAIDRequest - error 0xe00002ca detected for set "sys_2" (C398B450-28A3-4C1D-A6A8-5B617661789D), member 9722C38E-DFF9-4
68F-8DE5-809432493168, set byte offset = 35194773504.
Dec 22 05:34:53 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::recover() member 9722C38E-DFF9-468F-8DE5-809432493168 from set "sys_2" (C398B450-28A3-4C1D-A6A8-5B617661789D) has been marked
offline.
Dec 22 05:34:53 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::restartSet - restarting set "sys_2" (C398B450-28A3-4C1D-A6A8-5B617661789D).
Dec 22 05:37:24 8way kernel[0]: AppleAHCIDiskQueueManager::setPowerState(0x13d64500, 2 -> 1) timed out after 100113 ms
Dec 22 05:37:44 8way kernel[0]: Failed to issue COM RESET successfully after 3 attempts. Failing...
Dec 22 05:37:44 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002be on EB932B0E-8476-480C-BBD4-53A9A77D9FEF
Dec 22 05:37:44 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::recover() member EB932B0E-8476-480C-BBD4-53A9A77D9FEF from set "speed" (190EC75B-C702-4481-ABCF-8C5A0D54BBE0) has been marked
offline.
Dec 22 05:37:44 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::restartSet - restarting set "speed" (190EC75B-C702-4481-ABCF-8C5A0D54BBE0).
Dec 22 05:37:44 8way kernel[0]: disk4: media is not present.
Dec 22 05:37:59 8way kernel[0]: speed::terminate(kIOServiceSynchronous) timeout
Dec 22 05:37:59 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAID::completeRAIDRequest - underrun detected, expected = 0xa000, actual = 0x9e00, set = "speed" (190EC75B-C702-4481-ABCF-8C5A0D54BB
E0)
Dec 22 05:37:59 8way kernel[0]: disk4: data underrun.
Dec 22 05:37:59 8way kernel[0]: jnl: disk4: dojnlio: strategy err 0x5
Dec 22 05:37:59 8way kernel[0]: jnl: disk4: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 40960 bytes to the journal!
Dec 22 05:37:59 8way kernel[0]: disk4: media is not present.
Dec 22 05:38:00 8way kernel[0]: jnl: disk4: close: journal 0x13f34e04, is invalid. aborting outstanding transactions

External Serial ATA versus Firewire HD

I am debating between getting the LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple (300GB) and the LaCie d2 Hard Drive Serial ATA (400GB).
I would be backing up a PowerMac G5 (160GB HD), Dell Laptop (80GB HD) and an ibook (40GB HD). They are connected by ethernet cables via Belkin router which is also connected to a Motorola cable modem (Time Warner/ISP). The PowerMac G5 would be running Retrospect.
If I am planning on using one of them to run backups at home, which would be faster? I would think the LaCie HD Serial ATA to be faster. Maybe it would not make a difference with my current setup. Also, I am probably limiting my self since there are no USB or Firewire ports on the LaCie HD Serial ATA.
On a side note...the Maxtor OneTouch II 500GB External Firewire looks interesting. The size of the drive is definitely a plus. I am just not sure if I am comfortable backing up to a larger drive in case it unexpectedly fails. Plus I read some users getting locked out because of the Maxtor's built in "DriveLock" feature. Has anyone had good experiences with a 500GB drive? I generally hear mixed experiences regardless of the manufacturer.
Here are the links to the PDF datasheets for the products I am considering for reference:
http://www.lacie.com/download/datasheets/d2hdSATAen.pdf
http://www.lacie.com/download/datasheets/d2extreme_tripleen.pdf
http://maxtor.com/files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/data_sheets/onetouch_iidatasheet.pdf
Thanks!
Power Mac G5 / 2GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Oh, nobody seems to have answered your post so I'll give it a stab.
1: Serial ATA (SATA) is the fastest standard interface on PowerMac's only (far as I know), it's the interface connecting the internal drives. To get a external SATA you will need a SATA PCI card and external SATA drives. Unfortunatly other Mac's cannot connect to SATA as they use Firewire 400/800/USB. (there might be adpaters) So this might not be the best way to go. A triple interface external drive like the LaCie's Firewire 800/400/USB would be best for moving around different Mac's. However that doesn't mean you can't transfer data through the PowerMac from other Mac's to the external SATA drives, but your are bottlenecked by the slowest interface in the chain. So if you use a Firewire 400 network between the Mac's at that interfaces speed will be your over all performance. (Fastest interfaces: SATA, Firewire 800, then 400, then USB)
2: Windows uses a different disk formating than Mac's, so this will cause complications backing up a Windows machine to a common use drive. I advise getting a external drive just for that machine and "ghosting" or cloning the PC drive to it. Keeps the Windows problems off your Mac drives.
3: Another seperate drive for the iBook to clone to would be best. But you can take a larger drive and partition it to clone your PowerMac G5 to one partition and the iBook to another. Seperate drives is better as this gives you room to expand and use the drives for something else also if the partition map gets corrupted then you might have have trouble recovering data using utility software. Donationware Carbon Copy Cloner (visit the forums and read instructions for proper cloning) can help you clone or search Apple's site for Deja Vu for a great auto-cloning software.
4: When your using your network for the internet you can't be backing up, you need to creat a new network. Mac's can run more than one network at once. Via Airport, Ethernet, Firewire etc, each doing something different. So in your case a simple Firewire target disk mode may work perfectly for backing up the iBook through the PowerMac G5. All you have to do is use a 6-pin firewire 400 cable between the two machines and hold T and boot the iBook (or the PowerMac) the hard drive of the other appears on desktop of the other which simple drag n' drop can occur. Cloning requires booting and running cloning software from the machine being cloned and it will replace the other drive completely with the first drive (it's a clone) as this is the only way to duplicate a bootable drive. Cloning is best done drive to drive and it's not advised to run differnet Mac's with bootable clones from other Mac's as different Mac's have different OS's for their hardware.
5: A lot of these "big' drives are actually two drives in one case. Too much data in one hardware basket is asking for trouble. Plus they may be hot.
6: I have written some performance and other drive info (test download)
Large slow filled boot drives seriously affect Mac OS X performance.
clcik me
7: If your looking for internal drives, I recommend a 16MB cache to help the performance so look at this site
http://www.barefeats.com/hard63.html
8: You should read the book Mac OS X Tiger: The Missing Manual, it gives detailed steps and information to set up networks and other things.
Good luck and Happy Holidays.

Serial ATA to IDE Ultra ATA-100/133 Mini Converter Board~ Is it worth it???

I was considering installing a Serial ATA to IDE Ultra ATA-100/133 Mini Converter Board to run my ultra ATA devices.
Is it worth the trouble or would it bog my system down for a small increase in transfer rate????
Thanks
DD

I've got two IDE hard drives that have the converter board that plugs into SATA on my mobo. I didn't see that much of a performance gain until I went to RAID. I had IDE RAID and it worked alright. When I put the adapters on, the speed increased by at least double. I would say this is due to a more refined RAID controller, though, but it definately wouldn't hurt your performance any.

Bad Serial ATA Drives?

I've got a Daul 2.5ghz G5 that's really had a lot of problems since I bought it. The graphics card has been replaced, the motherboard has been replaced, and both processors have been replaced.
The other day, I noticed that rendering in Final Cut Pro 5 was just crawling.
Processor intensive tasks seem to go fine, but tasks that involve writing to the disks (both of the 250 serial-ata drives) go very slowly.
Computer is, of course, out of warranty now.
I wipped the computer and started from scratch and reformated both drives, same problem. Disks are not fragmented.
I ran Xbench. All computer tests scored above the 100 point baseline, except the drive tests:
Disk Test 71.27
Sequential 104.09
Uncached Write 109.13 67.00 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 100.96 57.13 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 99.81 29.21 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 107.04 53.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 54.19
Uncached Write 20.81 2.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 131.48 42.09 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 93.06 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 134.96 25.04 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Both drives scored really low on the random uncached write speed. Any ideas on what the problem would be? Could both drives go bad at the same time? Hard drive controller? Is there a way to test it without buying a new drive?
Russ
Dual 2.5ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

What make/model of drives? how old are they?
Hitachi 7K500 might fit the bill. Or 10K Raptor (but probably need SeriTek controller now, a must for the 150GB model and now the 74GB - both are excellent for boot drive). The 500GB 16MB cache Hitachi is also a solid drive.
Disk Utility: Erase: Options: Zero-all is what I would do first.
I try to keep one drive's outer track partition (100GB) just for OS / Apps (and use the 2nd parition for static archive and backups).
Then use Drive #2 for data / media / Users.
Maybe extra (external0 eSATA drives for FCP, scratch, backup and projects.
Some drives, SATA is going through a lot of changes, are trouble, not compatible, have SSC enabled, firmware doesn't support RAID as well as it could/should. NCQ being enabled doesn't help desktop use and isn't supported on G5 SATA ports.
Xbench is not the most 'reliable' test, but those are not normal numbers.
Keep your disk drive in "good health" (run Disk Utility, Disc Warrior etc from a cloned emergency drive regularly to do any repairs) as well as keep log and temp files to a minimum? run cron tasks at least weekly?

MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR and Serial ATA Drive

I've got a very strange problem....
Yesterday i have installed my new motherboard (MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR) but i have a problem with the SATA feature.
I've got two drives : one 40GB ATA (Western Digital) and one 160GB SATA also from Western Digital.
My SATA drive is recognized by the FastTrak BIOS (v2) but i'm unable to reinstall Windows XP Professional (with SP2 Slipstreamed) because Windows Setup didn't recognize the SATA disk. I have loaded the Promise Serial ATA Drivers at the begin of the installation (F6)...
I have also tried 2 different versions of the Promise SATA Drivers; the one that cames with my motherboard CD, and the most recent from the MSI website. But with both drivers the same result. How can i get my Serial ATA Harddisk get work with this motherboard?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Computerfreakje.
PS : My specifications are the following:
MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR (Rev. 7.4)
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
2x 256MB Kingston PC3200 Dual Channel
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb (R360)
Western Digital 40GB ATA
Western Digital 160GB SATA

Thanks for your reply Richard,
My motherboard didn't came with a floppy (I have bought an bulk version..) I have created a SATA floppy by myself. (I have got the drivers from the motherboard cd..) These drivers are also good, right?
Which type of RAID Array should i create? Because i have only one SATA drive.....
I think the "auto" feature is the easiest way?
Thanks.
Computerfreakje.

Hello I have imac (27-inch mid 2011) 3.1ghz intel core i5 1tb serial ata hard drive, amd radeon hd 6970m my problem is imac works fine in safe mode,but when you try to startup normal it's connstantly restart by it self.

hello I have imac (27-inch mid 2011) 3.1ghz intel core i5 1tb serial ata hard drive, amd radeon hd 6970m
my problem is
imac works fine in safe mode,
but when you try to startup normal it's connstantly restart by it self.

in safe mode works perfectly,soon as I try to boot in normal mode it's keep restarting.on screen I don't see any line vertical or horizontal picture look normal on safe mode.but unable to start normal it just restarting over and over.I try another HDD but same things happen,I replace memory but still same.works ok in safe mode but not in normal mode.I will try to post system error report.

Moving data from a dead G5 with serial ATA drives to a Mac Pro

I have a dead Power Mac dual 2.7 GHz G5. The red light on the edge of the mother board is on - and the machine does not start up. It has been dying slowly - the dual monitors turn off when I send an image to my printer.
It is under Apple Care - and today I purchased a Mac Pro quad 3.0 to replace it.
But - I need some files from the 2 drives in the dead dual 2.7 G5. They are 250GB Serial ATA; 7200 rpm drives.
From what I read here I cannot simply put the drives into the new Mac Pro.
So - I think that I need a firewire enclosure for the 250GB Serial ATA; 7200 rpm drives that will let me get out the data.
What is a good enclosure to do this - or is there another way? I can't send in the G5 for repair until I rescue the data from the drives and erase them.
Dual 2.7 G5, 2 intel iMacs, 1 MacBook, 1 Powerbook, 18 G4 Macs, 3 iPods Mac OS X (10.4.9) I teach Digital Photography clases - on Macs

You can install them - you just won't be able to boot
from them.
Don't move programs over - you should re-install them
instead.
That would be great. I don't need to boot from them - I just need to rescue some files.
Can I erase them from the Mac pro before I send the G5 off for service?

Delete files from an External Serial ATA Drive

I have an external Serial ATA drive with a windows operating system connected to my macbook pro by a usb adapter. I'm trying to delete some files from the drive but it tells me it is read only. How do I change the sharing and permissions?

You can't write/make changes to an NTFS formatted drive using a Mac without third party software.
Search Google for "Mac NTFS"

Can I install a serial ata solid state drive in my macbook pro

Hi there,
I some help. Have been using macbooks for a while now and usually would install a bigger hard drive myself just to get a little more room. I just ordered a 13.3 i5 macbook pro but it's coming with a 320 hd. I just saw that bestbuy has a serial ata 500gb ssd for $139 and I thinking about installing one of these in my mac when it arrives. I have not used an SSD before but from what I've read about it, it seems it'll be fun. What I need to know though is, will it work on this macbook and is it as easy to install as other hard drives?

1) it will work
2) it is "not" an SSD, it is a hybrid drive. Only 4GB is actually SSD, the rest is standard rotational hard drive.
You might get slightly better performance, but nothing close to an actual SSD.
Looking at the price and capacity you mentioned, I'm guessing your talking about Seagate's Momentus XT.

Thinkpad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adapter

I would like to install a second hard drive in my T61. I saw a thread that advised I can do this by purchasing a "Thinkpad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adapter". The thread also had a link where one can be purchased. However, the page displayed by the link said that the product was unavailable. Do I have any other options for installing a second hard drive? Will this adapter become available for purchase in the future? I want to install solaris or Linux on the second drive and boot from it, I assume this is possible. Thanks.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-61161.html
according to the Lenovo website, yes it is the right model for the T61.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

Is it possible to install a ssd in my 2013 imac 27 inch that currently has a serial ATA drive?

Is it possible to install a SSD in my 2013 imac 27 inch that currently has a serial ATA drive?

Not only possible, but well documented as well:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/imac-aluminum-tapered-edge-faq/how-to -upgrade-imac-hard-drive-aluminum-2012-2013.html

Macbook pro having serial-ATA issues

I was working on a project in xcode that an error poped saying it can't save the file, after that mac os just hanged, so I restarted it, but it couldn't get pass the apple logo, so I booted the recovery partition and tried the disk utility and it said there was a problem with the startup partition, so I tried the repair volume, but it didn't work, saying there was a write problem, so I tried to reformat it and then restore it to time machine backup, but it didn't work, so I removed the hard from my laptop and used a sata to usb enclosure and insert it to another mac and I formated the hard and reinstalled mac on it. when the hard is connected to usb I can boot from it and use it, but when I put it in the macbook it just can't boot from it. I figure there's a write problem with the serial-ATA. I live in a country, that doesn't have an apple store, so I want to fix this myself if I can, so please if anybody knows how to fix this please help.

Ok, I will try it tomorrow and see if it will fix it.
thanks for the tip.

Can i Repace My Main hard Drive with Western Dig 750GB Serial ATA/300 Hard

i have a Dual 2 GHz Power PC G5. it has the origional 160 or 180 in there.
is this a good drive?
just want to make sure i put the best drive as my main hard drive.
this drive is on sale.
thanks for your help
Message was edited by: synesthesian

If you want to use the ATA 300 drive at full speed you'll need to buy an ATA 300 Card, otherwise it
will only run at 150Mbps. It will still work but the throughput will be half since the Original G5 ata
controllers are serial ata 1 intead of the lastest version 2.
RealDave

External FireWire Casing: Parallel and Serial ATA, what's the diff??

Hello all.
I plan to get 2x FireWire External Casing and 2x 250Gb ATA Hard Drives seperately. I've done this before but I bought the 2 from the same store which no longer exsist.
This new FW Casing is similar to what OWC is offering:
http://www.memoryworld.com.sg/JetDrive/X9Combo400_main.htm
The specs say "Any single 3.5" Parallel ATA Hard Drive (Desktop size) ATA-6 compatible"
I saw on a local hardware zone site and there are parallel ATA and there are serial ATA
So what are their differences?
So in this case according to the specs, the FW casings would not take (i.e. reject) Serial ATA drives?
Thanks and cheers

SATA and PATA use two different sized connectors and have different data transfer speeds. They are not interchangeable.
There are cases that have SATA connectors on the inside like the AMS Venus, but it is USB and not FW. I have not been able to find a SATA to FW enclosure yet.

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