<< > > Which bay holds the SCA drive? I hear they tend to run hot. The 1 over > the > power supply is usually cited as the default place they put the "main" > drive in a G3 MT. Seems a counter-intuitive place, as far as cooling > goes, > to me. Is it better than in the "stack" of 5.25"-capable slots in > front, > to put 1 of those hotties? >
Sorry, I was typing fast. The main 40G ata drive is over the power supply. The SCSI drive is in the middle of the three 5.25 drive bays with the CDs on the top and bottom of it. I have had no problems with the drive over the power supply. Len >> I recently moved my Rev. B G3 Desktop mobo into an MT case. I have the capacity to put 4 IDE drives in there, although the cables, at least the ones I took from the DT, limit somewhat where I can put them. There are, as far as I can tell, 3 pathways to insert them into the upper chassis. I have a long SCSI ribbon pulled from a hosed PC that someone who liked SCSI with Linux adorned it with, as well as a PCI SCSI card, that, as far as I can tell, has no Mac drivers or firmware anywhere on the net (BusLogic). That cable goes up the hole behind the PSU, which seems to be the best way to get to the upper parts of the swing-out chassis. In the top slot over the PSU, I now have for a drive a 50-pin SCSI 4 MB IBM Ultrastar -- no speed demon, on the native SCSI bus, anyway, but won't fry an egg, either. I use it for back-ups. IDE bus 0 goes up through what I imagine is the "normal" hole in the bottom of the upper chassis to a 12.5 GB Maxtor, in the slot below the CD- (now DVD-ROM), partitioned, as required in a beige, with 1 7.4 GB OS X (Jaguar) volume, & 1 5 GB OS 9.2.2 volume. This is now my main drive, after my 20 GB Western Digital, which has just gone kerflooey. (It freezes everything when it reaches a certain sector, apparently a bad block that I can't seem to get sealed off when I initialize.) IDE bus 1 goes up the hole on the left (from the front) side of the chassis, which I supppose was intended for a cable from a PCI card, to the DVD-ROM, & formerly to the 20 GB Western Digital. I'm not sure what I'll do with the slot that the WD occupied. Thinking about taking the floppy drive out, too. I have metal mounting sheets for all 4 drives in the "stack." Thinking SCSI, if I can get a decent controller card...I just don't trust IDE these days, & especially not WD. (True, it wasn't under warranty -- was a freebee -- & now I know why, maybe? But I've heard bad things about them, even though the 1st hd that I got with the G3 was a 4.3 GB WD, still chugging away in a 6500.) It's weird, the situation...for Mac users, anyways: IDE: expensive card, cheap drives SCSI: cheap card, expensive drives __ Bill Art page: <http://geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/> -- 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/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
