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What do you guys do when installing SATA ssds in powermacs? I don’t want to risk melting my Mac with a crappy Molex-Sata power adapter cable.
what is best practice here for a blue and white and a quicksilver?
I recently picked up a 24" iMac 9,1 3.06GHz.
It came with a 100GB SATA SSD that was working fine. The previous owner used OpenCore to install Ventura on it.
I wanted more space so I picked up a 1TB WD Blue SATA SSD.
The trouble is the iMac often does not detect the new SATA SSD when connected...
Hello,
So having watched Action Retro Shenanigans with SATA cards in Beige Macs I recently decided picked up a SATA controller card off ebay for use in my G3 minitower. I plugged the card into the tower and added a SSD, booted into MAC OS 9.2.2 and could see the drive no issue. I initialized...
Introduction
My usual setup:
IDE bus 0: the original hard drive (cable select/master)
IDE bus 1: the original CD-ROM (master), passive IDE to CF adapter (slave).
I’ve got the StarTech IDE2SATA adapter that I just pulled out of my iMac G3 (2nd gen), together with its Sandisk SSD. It works...