I've added an ATA/66 PCI card to my MT and attached my 80GB drive to it. The original ZIP drive was removed and replaced with a Yamaha burner attached to one of the IDE ports on the MB. The other IDE port has an Apple 8X DVD-ROM (which replaced the original 24X CD) attached to it. I believe (without opening the unit to check) that both of the optical drives are set as Master. This set-up runs without any problems in OS X.

Question 1:
In the year or so that I have been running X, there have been a couple of times where I would get the floppy/? start-up screen. The only way to get the MT running again was to pull the Apple DVD and put the original CDR back in. Is this normal? If so, why?


Question 2:
I have recently installed 9.2.2 on a separate partition, so that I can boot into OS9 to use the A/V jacks on the back of the MT. (I have a number of albums that I want to burn).
When I boot into OS9 the MT will freeze when the Apple CD/DVD extension loads. It will boot, if I disable that extension but is very sluggish. If I unplug the DVD-ROM, altogether, it runs like a champ. This leads me to believe that I might have some kind of conflict when both the burner and DVD-ROM are plugged in. Keep in mind, that it runs like a champ in OSX, this only happens in 9. Is this a Master slave issue. Having owned a number of SCSI Macs, this is my first one with IDE.


Beige G3/MT
G4/366
768mb RAM
ATA/66 PCI Card
USB PCI Card
ATI Rage 128 PCI Card
Apple (Hitachi) 8X DVD-ROM
Yamaha 2100E Burner

Thank You


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