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VI. Troubleshooting
The SeriTek/1SM2 adapter does not seem to be recognized
Check the SeriTek/1SM2 adapter by ensuring it is properly seated in the CardBus slot in
your computer.
My hard drive or peripheral won
’
t work
Check cables and connections. Ensure the 7-pin Serial ATA cable is properly oriented to
the connectors on the SeriTek/1SM2 host adapter and the external enclosure. Ensure the
hard drives in the enclosure are properly powered.
Apple System Profiler under Mac OS X
1.
Open the
Apple System Profiler
by clicking opening the
Finder
, opening
Applications
,
opening the
Utilities
folder, and double clicking on
Apple System Profiler.
2.
Select the
Devices and Volumes
tab (early Mac OS X version) or open
Hardware
and
select
PCI/AGP Cards
(See Figure 28).
Figure 28: SeriTek/1SM2 Listed Under
PCI/AGP Cards
3.
Under
PCI/AGP Cards
section, SeriTek/1SM2 should show up as an
“
ata
”
card type.
4.
If SeriTek/1SM2 is not listed, shut down your PowerBook computer and try re-seating it in
the CardBus slot by removing and reinserting it. Repeat steps 1 through 3. If the
SeriTek/1SM2 still doesn
’
t show up in the
Apple System Profiler
, try moving it to another
PCI slot.
The transfer rate on my PowerBook G3 seems much less than the Serial ATA
specified maximum of 150Mbytes/sec.
Early
“
PowerBook
”
computers, typically built before the G4
“
Titanium
”
PowerBook was
available, have limited hardware resources. These limited resources severely limit data
transfer rates of many storage technologies, including Serial ATA.
