On 19-08-2001, Kyle Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I frequently (done it more than 75 times) add Maxtor DiamondMax
>7200 RPM 20-60gb
>ATA-66 drives to B & W G3's and I have never had a problem. I
>haven't even
>HEARD of the problem you are describing. I leave the stock 6gb
>drive in and add
>this storage unit as the slave. You see, That's why I sub to these
>lists. No
>matter how much you know...you don't know everything. I'm gonna
>go research
>this one...Thanks guys/gals.
Hi Kyle,
In the first few months of 2000 I was planning on buying a bigger HD to replace the
stock 6 gig . After some research I found out that there were probs with a bigger
master HD in a Rev1, but I thought WTH and bought a 30 gig Maxtor in May 2000 and
tried it as master and it worked fine, no probs. Adding the stock 6 gig was a nogo. So
I then put the 6 gig as master (like what you always do too) and the Maxtor as slave.
Works fine w/o data corruption. I'm using this config for one and a half year now. The
only problem which occurs from time to time is that the slave Maxtor will not mount at
startup and requires a restart. But I can live with that. Allthough most Maxtor drives
seem to have no probs when added as a slave, however some other brands do seem to have
probs when added as a slave, and even when used as the master drive only. One of those
drives was the IBM Deskstar 22 gig.
Check these links for more info:
http://www.Xlr8YourMac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/IDE/index.html
http://xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/BWG3_rev1_IBMdeskstar.html
There's also a discussion going on 'bout this issue at the Apple Discussion Forum:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]/0
I hope this is the info you were looking for.
Marc
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