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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Topic started by: Rainier on August 17, 2020, 10:29:05 AM

Title: PCI? PCIe? What's what and what works? New MDD new territory.
Post by: Rainier on August 17, 2020, 10:29:05 AM

Just picked up a 1.25 dual Mirror Drive Door and have Tiger on one drive trying to get OS9 on another. Eventually I'll suss that out.

Here's the question(s): can my MDD use PCIe cards? Should I stick with PCI only? I've seen adapters on fleabay: Yes? No?

Sources for PCI(e) besides eBay? I'm interested in adding USB 3 ports and perhaps a SATA drive card. Video I've got is fine for what I'm doing.

Educate me, please, on the dark arts of PCI and its descendants.
Many thanks.

Title: Re: PCI? PCIe? What's what and what works? New MDD new territory.
Post by: IIO on August 17, 2020, 12:32:38 PM

PCIe is a completly different interface and the converters you can find are usually vertical, which i find a bit questionable.

but the one or other PCI-X card could work. that is mainly those who do not need drivers and are supported by mac os 9 natively without special firmware, such as firewire400 & usb1 ports.

USB3 is not available for OSX 10.5.x

Title: Re: PCI? PCIe? What's what and what works? New MDD new territory.
Post by: Rainier on August 17, 2020, 04:32:22 PM

Thanks for the reply and information.
I assumed that the card could handle USB 3 and the OS was oblivious.
Is SATA out of the question then, too?

Title: Re: PCI? PCIe? What's what and what works? New MDD new territory.
Post by: IIO on August 17, 2020, 04:56:27 PM

the minimal specs for SATA is the presence of a any PCI slot and around OS 8.1 (not sure about lower OS)

the minimal specs for USB 3.1 is an intel processor and mavericks 10.9. :)

you´ll finds tons of infos around here regarding SATA when you use the search, it is one of our favorite topics.