on 9/23/2001 2:50, Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> No offense meant to Doug, but I really think that people are missing the point
> on this ROM issue. Those ROM's are going for nearly $150, and that is if you
> can even find one. Some users are reporting data loss while using a 2nd drive
> in a Rev. A G3 with a ROM upgrade anyway. Why not just spend $75 and get a
> PCI
> card like VST's Ultratek Raid 66??? That would allow you 2 channels on your
> G3
> so that you can add 2 more drives instead of spending 2x as much to add only
> one? It makes no sense. I have 2 beige G3's that I use as servers, and both
> are running the VST Ultratek Raid 66 card with twin 60gb HD's and I haven't
> had
> a single problem with them.
Each IDE channel allows two drives. That's 4 total. Minus the original hard
drive (or an upgraded one in its place) and the IDE CD-ROM and you still
have two more drive connections. I've got three IDE (2 HD, 1 CD) and two
SCSI (1 HD, 1 CDR) drives in my machine. There's also a SCSI Zip100 internal
in there. Now most people aren't going to move their machine into an ATX
case to get all those drive bays but it works for me. Another advantage is
that this all works with OSX without a hitch as long as OSX is booting from
a partition within the first 8 gigs of the master drive (ID=0) on either IDE
chain. I've got my boot hard drive for OSX set as master on one chain and my
Apple CD-ROM as master on the other chain. I'd be worried about the Ultratek
card working under OSX. If it does then you're right. It's smarter money
wise to get the card if it's not available from anywhere but eBay at a
highly inflated price.
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