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Re: Serial ATA on new G5

Ian --

What SATA chip / card (if any) would be compatible with
the new G5 and Mac OS 10.x out of the box?

None. SATA chips still need drivers, just like any other ATA chips. Since the ATA and SCSI vendors haven't yet agreed on an OHCI specification like the USB and Firewire vendors have, we can't support all the chips out there, so we support the ones we ship.

As an example, the Acard and SIIG ATA133 cards
work out of the box (bootable etc) without
any extras drivers.

Apple (unfortunately) ships some third party drivers on the CD, so Acard drivers are installed on every system. We'd like to have PCI device makers ship their drivers in ROM so we don't have to ship third party drivers. However, until they put their drivers in ROM or make firmware updaters to update the ROMs on devices already sold, Apple is stuck in this position.

-- Chris

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