SSD IN A G4 1.25 Dual

dillan · 11-27-2012, 02:44 AM

I've a Sonnet Tempo card and I'd like to install a SSD drive, I'm sure all will be ok. My only doubts are Trim and the OS will be OS9 and Leopard, I know no software is available for these OS's, so I'm counting on the hardware being able to take care of this by itself.

This is the card I'm instaling
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_serial_ata.html

And I want to use 1 SSD for OS9 another for OSX and an external SATA HDD for a scratch disk etc.

DeltaMac · 11-27-2012, 12:44 PM

My first thought is that PCI card might not function in OS 9 - there's likely no OS 9 drivers for that card.
If you already have that Tempo card, and have a bootable OS 9 - you should boot to OS 9, without any hard drive connections to that card, and see if it is recognized as a drive interface in the OS 9 Apple System Profiler.

If the PCI card is not recognized properly, you may have better luck with an actual IDE SSD (there are a few), or a simple SATA to IDE adapter, which is also not too hard to find. There's also the OWC legacy kits for SSDs.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/O...Legacy_Edition

11-27-2012, 02:44 AM	#1
dillan Triple-A Player Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 54	SSD IN A G4 1.25 Dual I've a Sonnet Tempo card and I'd like to install a SSD drive, I'm sure all will be ok. My only doubts are Trim and the OS will be OS9 and Leopard, I know no software is available for these OS's, so I'm counting on the hardware being able to take care of this by itself. This is the card I'm instaling http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_serial_ata.html And I want to use 1 SSD for OS9 another for OSX and an external SATA HDD for a scratch disk etc.

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11-27-2012, 12:44 PM	#2
DeltaMac League Commissioner Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 7,936	My first thought is that PCI card might not function in OS 9 - there's likely no OS 9 drivers for that card. If you already have that Tempo card, and have a bootable OS 9 - you should boot to OS 9, without any hard drive connections to that card, and see if it is recognized as a drive interface in the OS 9 Apple System Profiler. If the PCI card is not recognized properly, you may have better luck with an actual IDE SSD (there are a few), or a simple SATA to IDE adapter, which is also not too hard to find. There's also the OWC legacy kits for SSDs. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/O...Legacy_Edition