My last Mac was a B&W R1. The controller was major heartburn. To get it to work at all, I had to keep going back to smaller harddrives. The largest one I could find that resulted in no corruption was an old 9 GB originally installed in a beige G3. I finally tracked down a new old stock Acard controller for $30 that allowed it to run 2 60 GB drives without corruption. Paul Riemerman
On Apr 11, 9:44 am, Ruffin <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got a Rev 1 B&W I received for a song, and I'm a little confused > about its hard drive controller issues. It seems, after some Googling > around here and xlr8yourmac, like the slave on the fast controller is > always bad news, and that occasionally even the single HD on that > controller can become corrupted. > > Is there anything wrong with following the advice > here:http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list/msg/3ebab32a163d89cc > > ... but having that slave hard drive in the zip slot being my boot > drive? Let's go ahead and assume I don't care about hard drive speed > at all. Anything wrong (or better?) with putting the HD on master and > moving the optical drive to slave? > > As far as I can tell, PCI card controllers are too expensive to > consider for this box. I could buy a much newer computer for the > price of the card. So I need to find the cheapest (ie, "creative") > solution to keep this thing from getting its data corrupted if I want > to get it up and running productively. > > I do vaguely recall thinking that using Yellow Dog sidestepped some of > the driver issues, but I can't find that now. I'd be happy with a > Linux B&W, if that's any safer. > > Thanks! > > Ruffin -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
