I have a G3 BW (upgraded to 450MHz G4) with a version 1 IDE controller for the hard drive. I want to install a Hitachi 80GB drive and when I first tried there was a lot of data corruption and I had trouble starting up. I have been advised by Apple to install a IDE controller card for hard drives to update the old chip on the motherboard, which does not support big drives and also slave/master problems will arise.
I have purchased two G3B&W 400MHz systems to use in my business. One will have the lowly job of being a cash register, and running point of sales software. I planned to install OS 10.2 Server on the other machine. Kind of obvious what it will be doing. Two other computers will also access the sales, inventory and accounting software on the server system.
My hard drive controller question is with the server system. That machine has a 12GB IDE/ATA hard drive. My original intention was to add a larger capacity drive to that machine for hosting the server software and my inventory and accounting stuff. I was going to leave the 12GB drive in the machine and use it with Retrospect Server backup software for backing up. Were the G3B&Ws sold with more than one type of IDE controller on the motherboard? If so, could someone point me in the right direction in figuring out which one I have installed?
Or, would I be better off adding an IDE controller PCI card and connecting the two drives to it?
Clues for the clueless most welcome.
Nancy
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