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From: E. Bond Francisco (ebondf@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 13:39:57 PDT

Folks,

I have a G4 800 DP. It came with a 40G drive, and I added a 60G Maxtor
internal last summer. I'd like to take advantage of a CompUSA sale for 160
(or is it 120) Maxtor internal drives for ~$100. I understand that I can
install those internally (as long as I have a wind tunnel fan set up next to
the computer to cool them down!) but that I need to purchase an ATA
controller to be able to take advantage of the extra Gigs.

Someone suggested that I look for a Serial ATA controller card for these two
additional drives. Can anyone tell me if this is good advice or not? Can one
SATA controller work on all 4 drives (I doubt that the two original drives
are Serial ATA). I spent some time searching, and came up with
http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/ as about the only source of SATA controllers
for Macintosh.

If anyone has any good tips on how to go about configuring these two drives
into the mix, I'd appreciate it?

Thanks,
 
Bond
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E. Bond Francisco
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UC Berkeley
510-643-5523

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