Paul,
I am far from an authority on computer hardware; however, I've been
down this same road. I have the same chip and it caused me just the
same kind of grief. According to all the research I've done, even if
you can find the chip, it will not work. Apparently there are some
small differences in the motherboard that precludes this.(Can't
remember where, but I've read this several places,) The solution is
pretty simple, but it costs: a new PCI ATA controller card. This will
give the ability to add up to 4 additional, modern (meaning
larger,faster) ATA IDE or EIDE devices and will supposedly give you a
bit better drive performance to boot. I got one of these cards for
about $52.00. Plug and Play, and it works as advertised. By the way,
consider yourself lucky that you didn't install the larger drive. I
managed to complete the install with a 20Gb, and had quite a few
problems with data corruption. Lost the whole disc once. Check around
some more at http://www.xlr8yourmac.com and you'll probably find that
adding the card is the best way to go. (By the way, our machine is
referred to as the 'Revision 1' B&W.)
These machines still have a bit of life in them, don't they? Hope I've
saved you some time.
Vic Esposito
Glad to see that
On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 01:00 PM, Paul Nicholson wrote:
> This is my second attempt to add a large hard drive to a Blue and
> White G3. The drive is recognized and partitions and formats
> correctly, however when I install OS X 10.2 , 10.1, or OS 9, the
> installation process quits giving various error messages complaining
> about the hard drive.
>
> Last year, after several tries to add a Western Digital 80 GB drive I
> ended up installing the new drive in an IMac and moving the old iMac
> drive to the G3. But now the B&W G3 really needs more room, so I
> bought a Maxtor 7200 RPM PC133 drive. Once again, I am experiencing
> the same problem.
>
> Does anyone know what the problem is and how it can be fixed?
>
> A reference I ran across on Google mentioned that there was an
> improved IDE controller chip on later B&W G3's. See:
> http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/newfeatures.html
>
> My computer uses the CMD PCI646U2, but not the 402 version. Does a
> later version of this chip fix the problem? I have use of surface
> mount rework equipment and it would be easy to install the newer chip.
> And if I manage to find and install this chip, does anyone know if the
> existing ROM will run the new chip?
>
> Paul
>
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