I have a B&W G3 (REV. 2) with internal SCSI HD and the original IDE CD went bad. I searched accelerateyourmac and CD review sites and finally bot a Teac 52x-etc.
G3 recognized it, could run disks from it but could not boot from it, either C key or by selecting it in start up disk control panel.
After much nashing of teeth, and reading, I removed original ZIP disk to check its orientation, which I understood should have been "slave".
No jumpers at all. I checked their website, determined setting for slave and set it.
Teac still would not boot.
Changed ZIP to master and TEAC to slave and it boots off of C key just fine.
Your mileage may vary.
start at acceler8yourmac and check for firmware updates and other fixes people have found to work.
Mick wrote
I was at OfficeMax and Best Buy today. Both had cheap 52x42x52 CDRW drives for $9.99 after mail-in rebates. I'm configuring a 266 G3 DT for my son and have noticed some problems with the CD-ROM (sometimes won't mount disks, sometimes disks are unrecognizable, sometimes doesn't even show on the bus). I'm wondering if I can replace it with one of these drives. What does it take for a drive to be bootable in a G3? Also, what does it take to be Mac-compatible?
The OfficeMax drive was a Cendyne Lightning and the Best Buy drive was a MediaStor CW 524. Anybody know if these would work for me?
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