I checked, mine is a Rev 2. On Sunday 10 November 2002 06:25 pm, you wrote: > On Sunday, Nov 10, 2002, at 03:23 Europe/London, Jay Snyder wrote: > > B&W's seem to be flaky about what IDE hard drives you use. > > I tried to put a brand new Samsung SV8012H 40 gig in my B&W and > > the OS 9 install kept crashing. It would even give me problems > > initializing. > > > > I also had a 30 gig maxtor (7200rpm) on hand, put that in, everything > > is fine. > > The 40 gig Samsung is fine in Beige G3's, I've put several of them in > > Beige's > > w/o problems. > > Do either of you have Rev.1 G3 B&Ws? > > If you don't know check on <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com> on there G3 > pages. In there there is a guide to telling of you have a Rev.2 B&W G3. > If the IDE controller does not mach the desription then you do and that > will mostly explain the problem. > > A number of people have said that OS X solves the problem with Slave > corruption on the Rev.1 B&W G3s but since it is a hardware bug I an not > inclined to fully trust those findings. > > I have on the other hand noticed that my G3 (definitely a Rev.2) is > quite flaky at times in 10.2.1, especially regarding browsers or USB > hot-plugging. The stupid thing 'lost' my keyboard after I unplugged it > and replugged it. I had to reboot. Never had that happen in 10.1.x. > > I think there are a few bugs need ironing out in 10.2.1.
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