In answer to my question about the 120GB IDE drive Drew Wrote:
>The G3 built-in IDE controller is only ATA33 IIRC, so I don't believe it
>supports a drive this large. You would need an aftermarket IDE controller,
>which should give you a nice speed boost as well.
My understanding was that the G3 will support up to 130GB--that's why
I did not get a 160GB drive. And of course the drive works---it
just won't boot up. Where is this stuff written down anyway?
J.Morgan then wrote:
>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.
I got this G3 so that I could have a cheap general purpose office
machine that was solid. I have a G3 tower at home that is solid as a
rock. With a cheap ethernet NIC, (Thanks to advice from G-list
members for pointing the way) I figured this would be a cheap cheap
and solid solid OS9 backup machine with a SCSI port and USB ports
that would run all sorts of stuff. If I have to fork out $45 for a
card I am sinking deeper into the money problem and deeper into the
3rd party driver problem.
In fact, it runs now, but I want to put my new $150 Staples
pioneer DVD burner on the ATA1 bus, which means the old drive has to
go--although I have thought about using one of my old 1GB SCSI drives
around as a boot drive.
I'd trade down to an 80GB drive before I started spending
money and putting in more new cards and stuff. I don't feel
comfortable with any kind of cards--even my USB cards--in this
machine, because I want it to be really solid.
How about this--would smaller partitions work??
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