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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Storage => Topic started by: ettore on December 27, 2015, 11:28:35 AM

Title: sonnet tempo serial ata and os9
Post by: ettore on December 27, 2015, 11:28:35 AM

After the succesful os9 installation on a quicksilver with sonnet cpu,i want to try the sata interface.Anyone have experience with this interface?in the os9 panel the sata card is recognized as scsi...its normal?

Title: Re: sonnet tempo serial ata and os9
Post by: devils_advisor on December 27, 2015, 11:35:41 AM

Very much normal. Os9 is not aware of such a drive so in order to make it available they took the scsi route.

Title: Re: sonnet tempo serial ata and os9
Post by: ettore on December 27, 2015, 11:47:46 AM

ok..i will try to connect an hd and try to install another os9.

Title: Re: sonnet tempo serial ata and os9
Post by: devils_advisor on December 27, 2015, 11:55:02 AM

Now keep in mind not every card is compatible with os9. Some you might have to format in osx with os9 drivers enabled. Some may not let you boot from the attached drives.

Title: Re: sonnet tempo serial ata and os9
Post by: IIO on December 27, 2015, 12:01:36 PM

yes, in OS9 it is seen as "SCSI" and in OSX its seen as "IDE". dont worry about that. :)

follow these 4 simple rules and everything will be fine:

 - dont use drives bigger than 2 TB

 - divide them up into partitions not bigger than 500 GB each (and if you want to boot into MacOS, one partition not bigger than 192 GB)

 - dont forget to set their jumpers (if present) to "SATA 150 compatibility mode"

 - and of course: dont forget to put OS9 drivers onto them when formatting with OSX.

Title: Re: sonnet tempo serial ata and os9
Post by: twokayprod on January 05, 2016, 09:04:34 AM

Also, don't use a Samsung Evo 850 SSD, this doesn't seem to work as it has an unsupported table-structure or however this is called. The Evo 840 seems to work fine, though. I use an OWC which also works fine with the same card and OS9 on a Graphite Digital Audio G4.

Title: Re: sonnet tempo serial ata and os9
Post by: autologic on August 30, 2018, 08:50:46 AM

Quote from: twokayprod on January 05, 2016, 09:04:34 AM

Also, don't use a Samsung Evo 850 SSD, this doesn't seem to work as it has an unsupported table-structure or however this is called. The Evo 840 seems to work fine, though. I use an OWC which also works fine with the same card and OS9 on a Graphite Digital Audio G4.

Can you provide some more info on the Samsung 850 EVO issue?

Title: Re: sonnet tempo serial ata and os9
Post by: macStuff on August 31, 2018, 01:48:11 AM

its been found to be incompatible -
therse a simple fix: dont buy it or use it :)
or... if u like crying + pulling your hair out, go ahead! :) lol

Title: Re: sonnet tempo serial ata and os9
Post by: macStuff on August 31, 2018, 01:49:48 AM

Quote from: ettore on December 27, 2015, 11:28:35 AM

in the os9 panel the sata card is recognized as scsi...its normal?

you dont expect an os that pre-dates SATA150 to report it as such do you?? :)

Title: Re: sonnet tempo serial ata and os9
Post by: autologic on September 04, 2018, 05:02:05 AM

Quote from: macStuff on August 31, 2018, 01:48:11 AM

its been found to be incompatible -
therse a simple fix: dont buy it or use it :)
or... if u like crying + pulling your hair out, go ahead! :) lol

Ok, one last question! Is it known if this applies to the internal ATA bus only - or do the drives work OK inside of a firewire enclosure?

Thank you!