You may want to consider an ata pci card. It's much more cost effective as per dollar/MB...you can also attatch two ata drives to it...which are falling in price. Just an idea. Vst sells one for around 90 dollars. Sonnet sells one too (both at www.macsales.com ) It just leaves more options as far as future storage. This way when you need a larger hard drive you can add one inexpensively and/or replace the one you have without having to pay for another expensive firewire hard drive.
Unless of course you see yourself using the firewire card to connect other peripherals. although that's just my opinion :oP Justin on 10/1/01 7:04 PM, Ron Darlington at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My beige G3 DT 233MHZ has ROM Rev A which doesn't support a slave hard > drive. I have installed and am using a USB PCI card for other devices which > works fine. Will an external USB HD boot and mount on the desktop without a > ROM change? I could also add a firewire card (one empty PCI slot left). Any > reason to regarding benefits of a firewire external HD? Also, I have an > Iomega 100MB Zip drive plugged into my scuzzy port and it mounts fine. Would > a true scuzzy HD mount there as well, or, in place of? Thanks > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
