At 04:23 PM 2/06/03 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Nope. You don't want a SCSI disk.
Beige G3's use IDE drives; you can likely walk into the average office or computer superstore and pick up a smoking deal (with rebates).
I think you meant "can use IDE", because they also have a SCSI bus on the motherboard.
<sigh>
You can
a: buy a used 36 GB SCSI drive hacked from a 68-pin to 50 and try to play the necessary SCSI voodoo to get it working (from the perspective of someone who says "I need a SCSI drive, right? What is all this technical stuff?")
b: buy a 70 GB IDE drive new with warrantee for a lower price and have the choice of *two* jumper settings.
Gee, which is the better, easier deal?
(And even though the G3's have a slower bus, they will mount and run a 133 mhz drive with *no* problems. I am doing so on two different machines now.)
(and the first macs to use IDE were the Performa 6200 series, and PC's had been using them for a long tiome before that)
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