The card itself has one ATA133 bus, two internal SATA ports, and one external SATA port. The external port and internal "A" port are logically the same with jumpers to set the active port. Only one can be active at a time. One interesting feature on the card is the addition of a DC power connector on the PCI faceplate next to the external SATA port. The documentation states that this is a built in DC Jack to power an External SATA enclosure (SED-600) and that "sleep mode" is supported. I could not find any info on the SED-600 on Macsense's website.

In the box was the PCI card, one serial ATA cable, one IDE cable, Y-Type extension power cable, and a quick start guide. It only took a few minutes to install the card and connect a Deskstar 180GBX drive to the ATA133 bus and a WD Raptor to the internal SATA port. I restarted and booted without any problems to the 180GBX. I then selected the Raptor as the boot drive and had no problems booting from the internal SATA drive. So the card does boot from either the ATA133 or internally connected SATA drives. I don't have any external SATA drives so I can't confirm booting from the external port.

I ran some benchmarks on the ATA133 and SATA drives using Quickbench and I was very happy with the results. In fact the internal SATA slightly edged out a SeriTek/1VE2+2 2 card I have when testing the SATA Raptor.

It wasn't until I did some benchmarking, after the machine woke from deep sleep, that I came across a problem with the card. After deep sleep, Quickbench reports extremely slow write times. The read times are similar to pre-sleep, but the write times seem to hit a wall at around 14.8 MB/Sec.(see benchmarks below)

Also, deep sleep is sort of hit or miss. Sometimes it wakes and other times it doesn't requiring a hard reset. Other times it is just extremely slow taking a few minutes before there is any mouse movement. I've tried resetting the nvram but there was no improvement to the write speeds or reliably waking from sleep.

Moving the 180GBX drive from the ATA133 bus back to the on board ATA66 bus cures the sleep/write issues. The system wakes from deep sleep every time and there is no slow down in write times. This leads me to believe that the problem is definitely in the ATA133 bus.

I assume that a firmware update is probably needed. I've sent an email to Macense's tech support but have not had any response. I hope they will address the issue soon. If Macsense can address the sleep/write issue I think they have a great product for those who want to add SATA and ATA133 in one card to an older PowerMac.

It would be interesting see if any of your readers have any experience with this card and if they have any insight on what might be causing the sleep/write issues. (there were similar issues reported with some early PATA/SATA adapters used in G5s, although not everyone saw the problem and not sure if many card users even test after waking from sleep.-Mike)

More info on the card can be found at http://www.macsense.com/product/sua-100e.html
I'm running a 2001 QS Dual 800MHZ G4 w/10.4.2
See below for Quickbench benchmarks.
Regards, Kris

Before System Sleep:

QuickBench' 2.1 Test Results File ©2000-2005 Intech Software Corp. Test file created on Monday, August 15, 2005 at 8:38:01 PM Test Volume name: 180GBX

Xfer Size     Sequential Read   Sequential Write    Random Read      Random Write


1 KByte      1019.511 KB/sec   1.552 MB/sec      53.634 KB/sec     133.662 KB/sec
2 KBytes     10.484 MB/sec     1.421 MB/sec      12.977 MB/sec     3.840 MB/sec
4 KBytes     24.338 MB/sec     18.287 MB/sec     24.307 MB/sec     11.769 MB/sec
8 KBytes     40.733 MB/sec     25.904 MB/sec     41.845 MB/sec     24.368 MB/sec
16 KBytes    55.369 MB/sec     43.633 MB/sec     2.545 MB/sec      40.312 MB/sec
32 KBytes    69.367 MB/sec     59.411 MB/sec     4.951 MB/sec      59.018 MB/sec
64 KBytes    77.505 MB/sec     71.331 MB/sec     8.939 MB/sec      71.980 MB/sec
128 KBytes   70.645 MB/sec     81.370 MB/sec     17.551 MB/sec     77.964 MB/sec
256 KBytes   62.880 MB/sec     85.225 MB/sec     25.622 MB/sec     83.551 MB/sec
512 KBytes   70.134 MB/sec     89.726 MB/sec     33.801 MB/sec     89.168 MB/sec
1024 KBytes  69.941 MB/sec     91.099 MB/sec     42.108 MB/sec     38.814 MB/sec


Extended Test Size: 20 MB    Read: 51.395 MB/sec        Write: 81.357 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 30 MB    Read: 41.696 MB/sec        Write: 69.973 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 40 MB    Read: 43.874 MB/sec        Write: 64.442 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 50 MB    Read: 45.369 MB/sec        Write: 60.914 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 60 MB    Read: 46.617 MB/sec        Write: 58.341 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 70 MB    Read: 47.445 MB/sec        Write: 57.403 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 80 MB    Read: 47.762 MB/sec        Write: 41.984 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 90 MB    Read: 51.296 MB/sec        Write: 57.077 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 100 MB    Read: 48.564 MB/sec        Write: 56.291 MB/sec  

After Wake from System Sleep:

QuickBench' 2.1 Test Results File ©2000-2005 Intech Software Corp. Test file created on Monday, August 15, 2005 at 8:58:46 PM Test Volume name: 180GBX

Xfer Size     Sequential Read   Sequential Write    Random Read      Random Write


1 KByte      1.128 MB/sec      1.170 MB/sec      147.483 KB/sec    151.682 KB/sec
2 KBytes     8.623 MB/sec      1.319 MB/sec      11.091 MB/sec     2.913 MB/sec
4 KBytes     24.817 MB/sec     9.267 MB/sec      26.645 MB/sec     7.783 MB/sec
8 KBytes     41.097 MB/sec     10.860 MB/sec     41.800 MB/sec     10.836 MB/sec
16 KBytes    55.076 MB/sec     12.570 MB/sec     3.089 MB/sec      12.464 MB/sec
32 KBytes    69.957 MB/sec     13.549 MB/sec     5.070 MB/sec      13.677 MB/sec
64 KBytes    77.862 MB/sec     14.211 MB/sec     8.930 MB/sec      14.178 MB/sec
128 KBytes   79.370 MB/sec     14.590 MB/sec     17.502 MB/sec     14.472 MB/sec
256 KBytes   80.982 MB/sec     14.761 MB/sec     30.895 MB/sec     14.747 MB/sec
512 KBytes   69.536 MB/sec     14.829 MB/sec     33.474 MB/sec     14.832 MB/sec
1024 KBytes  69.562 MB/sec     14.856 MB/sec     43.858 MB/sec     14.861 MB/sec


Extended Test Size: 20 MB    Read: 51.281 MB/sec        Write: 14.876 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 30 MB    Read: 51.942 MB/sec        Write: 14.885 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 40 MB    Read: 52.259 MB/sec        Write: 14.887 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 50 MB    Read: 52.237 MB/sec        Write: 14.893 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 60 MB    Read: 52.377 MB/sec        Write: 14.891 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 70 MB    Read: 52.370 MB/sec        Write: 14.889 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 80 MB    Read: 50.378 MB/sec        Write: 14.893 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 90 MB    Read: 52.408 MB/sec        Write: 14.890 MB/sec    
Extended Test Size: 100 MB    Read: 52.328 MB/sec        Write: 14.893 MB/sec