10-30-2006, 08:35 PM
[quote M A V I C]If you put this card in a B&W and it still doesn't work with that drive, then you might have complaint people here wouldn't attack you for. (Assuming that the card hasn't been damaged by being in the unsupported system.)
Hmmm. Why should people attack me or any poster for that matter? I did link to the blog entry I wrote so people would have more information about the simple testing I had already done up to this point. All I wanted to know if there was a specific problem with the OWC 2+2 SATA card and the newer SATA drives (perpendicular, 3Gbp/sec).
I've also explained that the subject for this thread was misleading as I made a typo. Again, I'm not unhappy. I wanted to say that the devices were not happy together. I'm not here to complain, but ask questions. OWC Larry did an adequate job explaining things and I thank him. However, as a greater scheme of things question I was curious to know if there were any compatibility problems with the newer SATA drives and this card.
If my cobbled together system doesn't work the way I want it to, that's my problem. I get it. I never said it wasn't. The issue is probably because of the old system I'm using, but I wanted to doublecheck with any other people who are using this particular controller card and/or this particular drive. Perhaps, a moderator could edit the title of this thread to end with:
"not happy together"
or possibly
"not compatible?"
I assure you, this time some of the forum members got it wrong. I'm not here to bash OWC, but I wanted to make the extent of this card's compatibility clear. I thought the readers of Low End Mac would be interested (my next article was going to be posted there). Sometimes the specs listed as supported are not all encompassing. I've used more than a few Linux boxes and very few of the PCI cards have actually listed Linux compatibility on the package. Sometimes we get lucky and if the card works it gets added to hardware compatibility lists. That's sort of the goal here, but the list is the "Obsolete Mac compatibility list". After all, Sonnet's products are similar and list PCI v2.2 compatibility on their SATA PCI controller, yet essentially every PCI equipped Mac is noted as compatible. I wasn't sure if the OWC team decided to not bother testing the older computers because the benefits were minimal or if there was a technical issue.
M A V I C, does PCI v2.2 guarantee that the card only works with 3.3v? If so, how does the Sonnet team manage their huge Mac compatibility list for their SATA PCI product? They have seemingly every Mac or Mac clone with PCI slots listed. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_serial_ata.html Different chipset? Different connector? I'm not trying to be snooty, I'm honestly curious.
Hmmm. Why should people attack me or any poster for that matter? I did link to the blog entry I wrote so people would have more information about the simple testing I had already done up to this point. All I wanted to know if there was a specific problem with the OWC 2+2 SATA card and the newer SATA drives (perpendicular, 3Gbp/sec).
I've also explained that the subject for this thread was misleading as I made a typo. Again, I'm not unhappy. I wanted to say that the devices were not happy together. I'm not here to complain, but ask questions. OWC Larry did an adequate job explaining things and I thank him. However, as a greater scheme of things question I was curious to know if there were any compatibility problems with the newer SATA drives and this card.
If my cobbled together system doesn't work the way I want it to, that's my problem. I get it. I never said it wasn't. The issue is probably because of the old system I'm using, but I wanted to doublecheck with any other people who are using this particular controller card and/or this particular drive. Perhaps, a moderator could edit the title of this thread to end with:
"not happy together"
or possibly
"not compatible?"
I assure you, this time some of the forum members got it wrong. I'm not here to bash OWC, but I wanted to make the extent of this card's compatibility clear. I thought the readers of Low End Mac would be interested (my next article was going to be posted there). Sometimes the specs listed as supported are not all encompassing. I've used more than a few Linux boxes and very few of the PCI cards have actually listed Linux compatibility on the package. Sometimes we get lucky and if the card works it gets added to hardware compatibility lists. That's sort of the goal here, but the list is the "Obsolete Mac compatibility list". After all, Sonnet's products are similar and list PCI v2.2 compatibility on their SATA PCI controller, yet essentially every PCI equipped Mac is noted as compatible. I wasn't sure if the OWC team decided to not bother testing the older computers because the benefits were minimal or if there was a technical issue.
M A V I C, does PCI v2.2 guarantee that the card only works with 3.3v? If so, how does the Sonnet team manage their huge Mac compatibility list for their SATA PCI product? They have seemingly every Mac or Mac clone with PCI slots listed. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_serial_ata.html Different chipset? Different connector? I'm not trying to be snooty, I'm honestly curious.