> I thought I would install a 120 GB IDE drive on my G3. It's
>a stock G3 DT 266, with an Asante NIC and a USB card in slots B & C
>running 9.2 on the original 4GB Drive (actually 3.5 available). So
>I took out the CD drive, set the 120GB pins to master, put the 120GB
>on the second IDE bus (ATA0), initialized it into 3 partitions of
>25GB, 37GB and 49GB, dragged all the stuff from drive one to
>partition one of the new drive and everything worked fine.
> Swapped the drives and put the new drive on ATA bus 0. I
>can boot from the original drive on bus ATA1, but it will not boot
>from the new 120GB drive on ATA bus 0. Actually it did once and then
>would not. If I disconnect the original 4GB drive I get bug
>question mark. I read a recent column by Dan Knight who couldn't
>get his drive to boot from OSX (but it would work from OS9). So I
>took his advice, unplugged everything, including the battery (that I
>checked) left it overnight, put the battery back, hit the CUDA
>switch, tightened up the monitor connections and hit the button and
>it booted from the 120GB ATA0 drive ! Hooray ! I hit restart and it
>flailed around and booted from the 4GB ATA1 drive. I shut down,
>disconnected the ATA1 drive, hit startup and it won't recognized the
>120GB ATA0 drive and boot. Reconnected the the 4GB drive to ATA1
>and everything boots fine and I see the 120GB ATA0 drive and it works
>fine and so forth.
> Why Won't the 120 GB Drive boot up the machine?
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I recently put this same combination in a G3 DT but I put in
an A-Card ATA-133 PCI/IDE card and hooked the drive to it. Works like
a champ and boots as well.
Much better to hook a new ATA 133 hard drive to an ATA 133
controller than to hook it up to an ATA 33 or ATA 66 bus. Runs better
and faster and boots too.
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