Latest G5 owner feedback on SerialATA/Parallel ATA adapters
Last year Apple posted a PowerMac G5 kbase doc saying there's no support for parallel-> SerialATA adapters, although several readers w/G5s last year tried them and they worked, most noted problems after waking from sleep with drive performance for instance. (see first report in Sept. 29th, 2003 news page.) Here's the latest G5 owner report on a SATA/PATA adapter in a new 'rev B' G5:
" Hi Mike, I can report success with using a Parallel to Serial ATA adaptor in my dual 2.5GHz G5 with OS X 10.3.5. The adaptor is a "SERILLEL2" made by ABIT Computer Corporation . I'm using it with an 80 GB Western Digital drive, model number WDC WD800JB-00DUA3 according to System Profiler.
It works fine and I can even boot from it, no issues noticed when waking from sleep either. (I asked to verify he's seen no performance issues-Mike) The documentation lists the core logic as being a "Silicon Image Sil3611 Parallel ATA to Serial ATA Bridge." It also claims to support hot-plugging, but I haven't tried it.
I used a Y-adaptor to get power to the hard drive from the optical drive's connector. The power cable runs through the PCI card space and up at the back of the case. It was a little bit of a stretch to get the stock SATA cable connected, but once it's in it isn't being strained.
Cheers, Josh "