on 10/1/01 6:04 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 don't know about booting unfortunately, but it will mount on the desktop as an external hard drive, no problems. > I could also add a firewire card (one empty PCI slot left). Any > reason to regarding benefits of a firewire external HD? Speed. USB (1.1) is basically about 1.2megs per second... Even less is actually transferred. Fantastic for mice, scanners, etc which aren't bandwidth intensive... But even USB CDR's are sloooooow. In the actual firewire CDR/Hard drive there's not much of a price difference, and they're so much faster (about 40megs per second bandwidth). Just make sure you get one of the newer Oxford 911 chipsets (the place you're buying from should say something like "comes with the oxford chipset for maximum speed, etc") which is a newer bridge chip which is heaps faster. > 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 A true SCSI hard drive will work fine... It has to have a 25 to 50 pin cable though (hard drive plugs into the computer, zip plugs into the drive with termination set to "on"). The downside to doing this is external SCSI drives are more expensive (unless you get slower ones) and when you upgrade your computer you'll have to buy a SCSI card which will take up a PCI slot and cost yo uaround $59. -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- 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>
