--- You wrote: Will a rev. 2 beige G3 support 4 hard drives ? (obviously no room for any CD etc)
Larry --- end of quote --- --- You wrote: Will a rev. 2 beige G3 support 4 hard drives ? (obviously no room for any CD etc) Larry --- end of quote --- Six Drives. No, seven, no... I mean even more. Seriously, there are a lot of ways to run drives on the Beige. You have a scsi bus which could support six drives, or you could add one or more scsi pci boards for more and faster drives, that should add up to 21 possible scsi drives. (Not realistic, but possible.) You can add multiple drives through the firewire port (or usb 2 port) on an aftermarket pci card. Using the motherboard ide buses with an rev B or C rom, you can put two drives (master and slave configuration) on each of the two buses. Two? Yes, you could put a slave drive on the same bus as the cd rom. Or drop the cd rom and have four drives on the native ide bus. Put an outboard cd drive on the scsi, firewire or usb port. But the native bus is very slow by modern standards. The most common, economical way to expand the number of drives on a Beige is to put in a pci ATA board. An ATA 133 bus is faster than you need on a Beige since the 66 mhz pci bus won't use all the available speed, but it works fine anyway, and cheap 7000 rpm ata drives on one are much faster than they would be on the native bus. They are fast enough for DV video editing. This may be more than you want to know, but every possibility is actually practical. In my Beige MT machine I have three ATA drives on a pci board, one on the native bus (because I can't find a way to run wires from the pci board to all four drives. (I have a dvd rom on one native bus and a superdrive on the other, since copying doesn't work well if they are on the same bus.) I have a 160 gig firewire drive for backup. And I've used the native scsi to read drives from defunct older Macs at work. I also have an old scsi 4 gig drive, usually switched off, in my scsi chain. I manage to fit all four drives and two dvd drives in one machine. The dvd drives are in bays, as are two of the hard drives. One more drive is in the rack by the power supply and the fourth drive is hanging loose next to the mother board. This seems to work out fine. I have added two fans in the mounting positions provided by apple by the internal handle. These keep the pci boards cool as well as, I hope, all those hot drives. Seems ok. The power supply seems to be handling the load just fine. This configuration, less the second dvd drive, has been together and used heavily for over a year. Huge amounts of storage are necessary for decent video production, and other projects. and it has become cheap and practical to add it to an older machine like a Beige. Hope this helps. Rich -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
