Mac Flashed Sil3112 Sata Cards

[max1zzz]

If anyone is in need of a cheap OS9 bootable SATA card (and dosen't fancy soldering a PLCC32 SMT flash chip) i can modify the readily available PC cards with the appropriate flash chips flashed with the seriteck firmware

These are OS9 / OSX bootable. Only problem i have had with them is they don't seem to work with the 2001 Quicksilver (i'm not sure if this is the card or if something is up with my quicksilver) But these are tested and working in the B/W G3, Sawtooth G4, '03 MDD and the '02 Quicksilver

The price would be £10 + shipping (for a single card this will be 73p in the UK, £3.20 to Europe and £3.80 to the rest of the world)

currently i have to order the cards from china on a per order basis, this means there is a couple of weeks lead time till i have the cards to modify

[Knezzen]

Im up for one! Im located in Sweden.

[supernova777]

works fine in my quicksilver

[max1zzz]

Im up for one! Im located in Sweden.

Sure thing, send me a PM

works fine in my quicksilver

Yours is a '02 right? as I say, mine is a '01 and doesn't boot correctly with the card installed. Could be as mine has a patched firmware for it's sonnet CPU upgrade, or perhaps it has a logic board fault. Who knows, all i know is my '01 QS won't boot with one installed

[supernova777]

pretty sure my 2001 qs worked with it..
the 867mhz single cpu qs is 2001 right?
must be related to teh sonnet cpu upgrade then!
which is ironic because sonnet uses the same card..
maybe a real sonnet tempo sata is patched to work with the firmware u have?
i cant see them selling a product that was incompatibile with their other product

[max1zzz]

mine was originally a 733mhz, i think there was a 867mhz quicksilver (dose yours support hdd's larger than 128gb on it's internal ATA bus? the '02's do but the '01's don't)

It could be that i accidentally partially flashed the wrong sonnet firmware onto the QS (I was 10 or 11 and had just been given the QS by my dad and i didn't really know what i was doing...) I thought i had managed to clear it all out but it's possible i haven't

[supernova777]

yea the 867 doesnt support large drives as far as  i know.. its the revision A board vs B Board.. b does. a doesnt

[CTSAudio]

Does this Sata ( Mac flash) card work on G4 quicksilver 933 single CPU  and G4 400 single CPU ?

[cc333]

Hi!

The Rev. A Quicksilver board *should* be able to use large drives via a PCI card, though? My understanding is that the 128GB limitation only applies to the internal IDE interface, which doesn't utilize LBA48.

max1zzz: I may be interested in one of these cards!

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[DieHard]

Hi!

The Rev. A Quicksilver board *should* be able to use large drives via a PCI card, though? My understanding is that the 128GB limitation only applies to the internal IDE interface, which doesn't utilize LBA48.

max1zzz: I may be interested in one of these cards!

Yes, to clarify, the 128GB limitation does NOT apply to add-in SATA card/s.  A SATA card can be installed in any G3/G4 without any on-board IDE limitations. Just be aware, as discussed in other posts, Add-in cards will take away some of your PCI bandwidth, this may only be an issue if you have too many other internal PCI cards (like AUD-1, Audio Interface, etc) in the same system.