On Jul 18, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Justin The Cynical wrote:
The B&W's have two IDE controllers in them (ATA 33). So, you could
have four IDE hard drives in it, but you would loose the Zip (it it's
still in there) and the optical drive.
Cons:
If the drives are SCSI, the above doesn't count. :-) Depending on
the rev of the mainboard, the system does have a pair of dual drive
sleds along the bottom of the case. If the system is a rev 1, then it
is /highly/ reccomended that you get a 3rd party IDE controller card
and not use the built-on IDE controllers for more than one drive per
chain. Rev 1 IDE controllers had a problem figuring out which drive
to write to with a dual drive on a controller configuration.
I believe (and I've got a rev 1 B&W and have researched the subject
somewhat) that the limitation only applies to the rear controller, not
the one that the CD and (possibly) the zip are on. People don't seem to
have any problem running the two optical drives in tandem, and some
folks *have* experimented with putting a HD on that bus and reported
good results.
So, if this is a rev 2 B&W and the stock drive sleds are still there,
these is room for four drives If the sleds are gone, you will have to
get new ones as the rest of the case was not designed to hold 3.5 form
factor drives. However, You could put one in the spot where the zip
drive would normally sit, or get some adapters and put one in the
optical drive bay. As with all things, there is a way to do it.
There's some strongly worded advice (from Apple, and on xlr8yourmac)
*not* to put anything but a zip into the zip drive bay, because of heat
issues: but xlr8 also has an article by somebody who put a HD into the
open space above the CD, with apparent success. Of course you'd have to
get hold of a spare single drive sled to try it.
As for the drives and card, that I don't know. IIRC, Apple did offer
the B&W's with a SCSI card, but I don't think it was an ultra wide,
just an ultra. I would do some searching on ebay. SCSI cards are
realitivily cheap, it's the drives that are expensive. :-P
I have an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card and cable that I'm meaning to put up
on eBay some one of these days -- if anybody wants it, please get in
touch with me *off list*.
Best,
Victoria
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