Worked like a charm. No 8 gig limit on the ATA card, either - I have 10.2.6 booting off a 20 gig partition.
I've had the PCI ATA card for awhile, and I was never able to solve the stuttering A/V issue in OS X on the 8500 (there is a fix for OS 9). This was important because the intended use of the machine is a home iMovie/iTunes work station using the OS X versions of iTunes and iMovie (especially iTunes and the music store).
I felt I had two choices - to spend money on absurdly expensive SCSI drives to avoid the stuttering on the 8500, or buy a used Beige so that I could use large and cheap IDE drives in OS X.
It really says something that you can buy a complete used Beige G3 now, for less than the cost of a large SCSI drive. I paid $75 for my Beige (a totally stock G3/266 DT), a good deal I know, but still . . . All I had to buy was more RAM, I had the rest either lying around or I cannibalized from my 8500 (e.g., Radeon 7000).
I wonder if the invisible line between old Macs that can be meaningfully upgraded and those that can't has finally skipped over the original PCI macs.
At any rate, I'm a happy new Beige G3 owner
Greg Abbott Minneapolis
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