Mac Pro Update (sort of)

by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/25/2006 3:36 PM EST
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  • Dennis Travis - Saturday, August 26, 2006 - link

    Good find plinden. I guess it's something to do with the SATA driver in Bootcamp then.
  • plinden - Sunday, August 27, 2006 - link

    More news on SATA drivers. Apparently, if you create your own XP install disk and include the SATA drivers it works fine - see here http://web.mac.com/terrabit/iWeb/macpro/xp.html">http://web.mac.com/terrabit/iWeb/macpro/xp.html
  • Anand Lal Shimpi - Sunday, August 27, 2006 - link

    Thanks for the link, I'm trying it now and will report back in the morning on my findings.

    Take care,
    Anand
  • edwardhchan - Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - link

    Hehe, it works for me.... Somehow, it reports the drives as Multi-Word DMA 2, which of course is maxed at 16.6 MBps. However, using HDTach, it's clearly running at SATA 3.0Gbps :D 65 MBps average speed, burst speed in the 200 MBps range.
  • aaaaa - Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - link

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  • ftf - Sunday, August 27, 2006 - link

    WOOHOO!!! If this works, I'm ordering a mac pro tomarrow, this is the only thing that has been holding me back from jumping on it. It's a really good deal, esp considering the edu discount....
  • Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, August 28, 2006 - link

    It looks like it does :)

    Take care,
    Anand
  • plinden - Saturday, August 26, 2006 - link

    Someone over on http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=22778...">MacRumorsMacRumors has posted that they put an IDE drive in one of the optical slots, set it up as master, and is getting 57MB/s from the drive.
  • ksherman - Friday, August 25, 2006 - link

    So you were using a "regular" ATI X1950 XTX in the Mac Pro, not an Apple branded one? I was under the impression that Apple was using some kind of EFI system with their video cards.
  • ViRGE - Sunday, August 27, 2006 - link

    The X1950XTX he's talking about is the one used in review Derek did. The problem is Dreamweaver choking with the article.
  • ksherman - Sunday, August 27, 2006 - link

    still doesnt quite answer my question... was he using the x1950 in his Mac? And if so, was anything done to the card to make it compatible with a Mac?
  • BigLan - Sunday, August 27, 2006 - link

    Derek had/has the x1950, and did the review. He sent the review to Anand, who was using DW to edit it and prepare it for upload, which is where Anad had the problems.

    That's how I read it anyway. If anand had the x1950 working in the mac pro, we'd have benchmarks by now :)
  • Anand Lal Shimpi - Sunday, August 27, 2006 - link

    You got it (especially about how you'd be reading benchmarks if I could get the X1950 XTX to work on the Mac under OS X) :) Sorry if I wasn't clear in the post.

    Take care,
    Anand
  • Konq - Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - link

    BTW - I just bought one with 4GB RAM/Quadro card (due next week) so I am especially interested in your article!
  • Konq - Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - link

    Some guy made the GeForce 7800GTX work with OS X on the G5s, so I bet it can be done with the Intel Macs at some point.

    If an enterprising PC graphics card manufacturer just used 128K ROMs and came up with an installer/uninstaller that modded the OS X video driver for VRAM amount, etc., the field could be wide open for cards that used the same GPU but had different clocks and memory amount.
  • ksherman - Monday, August 28, 2006 - link

    Ah, ok, all is well then :-) Too bad... I was hopeing that Apple was being nice for a change
  • brownba - Friday, August 25, 2006 - link

    Anand:
    any more rumors on a single socket Core2 Duo based tower?

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