I have a B/W 450. You will love your Macs! These machines have two 2-channel IDE buses in them. One bus for two drives and one bus for the CD and Zip (if present). I had two drives in my computer and I noticed that the slave drive kept having trouble. Then I read that the IDE bus could corrupt the slave drive (see site below for details).
You could simply replace the existing 12 GB drive with a bigger HD. If you want two hard drives, I recommend a PCI ATA controller. I use a Sonnet Tempo 133. It's actually faster than the original ATA/IDE bus. Right now I have one 120 GB Maxtor on the original IDE bus and the same type drive on the Sonnet PCI card. The card was under $100 and was a breeze to install. Simply turn the machine off. Plug in the card and drive and turn it back on.
I'm very happy to see a place of business elect to use Macs. Since you have finance, cash register, etc. type s/w you will be using on your Mac I guess that puts to rest, forever, the argument that you can't find necessary s/w for the Mac! ;-)
Here is the site where I read about the IDE buses:
http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g3c.shtml
Hope this helps.
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 06:46 PM, Nancy Haitz wrote:
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?
Thanks,
Glenn
Mac: B&W G3 450/Sonnet ATA133/2x Maxtor 120GB HD/Toshiba Combo Drive/Zip 100
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