[geeks] Neat PCI ATA/133 card

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 08:13:43 CDT 2009


Came across this card this morning, thought it was interesting. It is
an ATA/133 (IDE) controller card that has both a 40 pin connector for
"normal" drives and a 44 pin connector for an on-board 2.5" IDE
"notebook" drive with mounting hardware to place the drive on the PCI
card itself.

It appears to have been designed/intented for upgrading older Macs
with slower controllers and limited drive installation slots, but it
could be useful for other applications (adding a ninth boot/os drive
to an 8 bay storage server, for example.

Anyway, here's the link:
http://store1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?cPath=24_39&products_id=243

OWC says they are for storage only, they are not Mac bootable,
according to this page:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/THDMW/

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Lionel Peterson
lionel4287 at gmail.com



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