Mac booting Sil3112 SATA Controller found
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Simon
    Posts: 809 from 2008/7/6
    From: Antwerp, Belgium
    So, now we have MorphOS 3.1 ... what card do I need when I want it to boot MacOSX . I have looked to the Sonnet card but I find it rather expensive. Cheap alternatives that are tested by you guys ?
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    redrumloa
    Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13
    Kronos,
    Quote:

    My QS has the following:
    -CF-adaptor with small card containing the boot.img and an emerceny system
    -el cheapo 3112 card (<10Euro))
    -RDB-partioned 500GB-SSD-Hybrid drive


    How fast does your system boot this way? Did you manually set this up with a custom startup-sequence?
  • »12.07.12 - 19:29
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2239 from 2003/2/24
    About 35sec from pushing the reset-button (most of it due to the OF fiddling it's thumbs). Could probraly still a few secs more with cleanup of my install.

    No special startup needed....
    - the small HFS partition on the CF is th only one seen by the OF (along with another small boot partition for Linux)
    - the SFS partition on the CF has a lower boot-pri as the "MorphOSHD" partition on the Seagate.

    Btw, just bought a 120GB IDE SSD for another MorphPuter will be interesting how that one will compare to the QS.
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    >> I don't know where you got this, but the Sonnet Tempo PCI card
    >> clearly has a SiI 3112 chipset...

    > The quote I gave you was directly from Sonnet support. The Sonnet Tempo
    > card is also known as the TSATA. And according to Sonnet:
    > "The TSATA board is built around the Firmtek 1S2 sata chipset."

    I think I can resolve this mystery. The Sonnet Tempo aka TSATA card is a rebadged FirmTek SeriTek/1S2 card. This card uses the SiI3112 chipset. Sonnet's statement is thus very misleading.
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