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03-07-2009, 06:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Germany
Posts: 1,216
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The problem with these external SATA controllers is that they pause the boot process for some seconds so you could get into the controller's options.
'Bad SATA support' is not easy to define. Mostly the speed is a problem, and this depends mostly on the the harddisk. I added three xbench screenshots, the Maxtor is IDE with 8 MB cache, the Samsung HD501UJ is SATA with 16 MB cache, the Samsung HD103UJ has 32 MB cache.
But cache and SATA is not everything, I had an Maxtor 7L300 or something like this, ATA-133 and it was much faster, using Tiger and AppleVIAATA.kext.
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.
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