On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 05:46 PM, Ron Steinberg wrote: > I've just gone through 3 weeks of trying to get Apple to admit that > there is > a problem with the Rev. 1 IDE controller chips. No go, they just said > that > it works with the drives that originally came with the machines, which > means > up to 12G. Now off the record, I was told that the big problem was when > trying to do a master/slave thing, NOT upgrading to a larger drive. > I've got > a Rev. 1 box, I'm going to try a WD 80G drive in it, if it doesn't work > well, I'll stick the drive in a FW case rather than buy a controller > card. > That way the drive is portable, and I don't loose anything when > selling to > old machine (I'll keep the 80G). > > RonS > > p.s. Out of curiosity, there used to be an IDE card made by VST that > sold > for around $50 at OWC, but they no longer carry it. Anyone know what > happened, and where to get a cheap card if I did want to go that route? > >> The Rev. 1 Motherboard has problems with the IDE controller, so any HD >> except the one that came with it will cause the problems you're >> having. >> You MUST get an ATA card to use a bigger HD, so look for a cheaper >> ATA/33 or ATA/66. > >
I don't know about cheap boards but I put the Sonnet Tempo board in my rev. 1 G3 and now have 2 -40 GB IBM drives from that card OK. Had to get the Adaptec FireWire card to replace the dead FireWire of a rev 1 machine. Now everything is rock sold on OS 10.1.2.3. Eric -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
