On Feb 9, 1:59 pm, "Gorka L Martinez Mezo" <[email protected]> wrote:

> BTW, I found it SLOOOOOW. It`s running Mac OS 9,1 and has one 40Mb IBM
> DeathStar HD built in 2001 replacing the original 4Mb unit supplied with the
> machine.

The built-in IDE on the Beige is only 16 MB/s.   It just begs for an
ATA-133 PCI card, although cable routing is a pain.

When shipped the slow IDE was not a problem because the hard drives
they shipped wtih were even slower (in terms of real world data-to-
platters data rate).

Jeff Walther

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