On Mar 6, 2009, at 1:02 AM, ron wrote:
>>> I have inherited a Beige G3 Minitower with 2 IDE hard drives, >>> The issue is that boot ups are very slow almost >>> like the machine is searching for a startup disk. > > The thing that you are not paying attention to is the fact that a > Beige G3 normally takes quite a while to boot up. One reason why I went to SCSI for boot and work drives on my last Beige G3 (I have had several) was poor disk performance. I had a Rev. 3C 300 MHz Beige MT, and this was all all tarted-out with a 533 MHz processor upgrade from OWC and a high-end SCSI controller from ATTO. Boot drive was a 36 GB UW-SCSI. Data drives were large to very large ATA drives (160 and 300 GB) which had been converted to UW-SCSI using ACARD's "SCSIDE" adapter cards. The Rev. C ROM was replaced by a Rev. A as I did not need extra ATA channels. (The Rev. C ROM was reused in a Beige DT). Two ATA optical drives were installed, one being a DVD burner, the other being a CD burner. That's a brute-force way of getting decent performance out of a Beige MT. B&W G3 and even Gig-E G4s are so cheap these days, it would make no sense to duplicate that Beige G3 configuration, but it made sense at the time. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
