On Apr 11, 9:44 am, Ruffin <[email protected]> wrote:
... 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?
Yeah, there is a major problem as the controller can't boot from hard
drives on that bus.
Source: <http://lowendmac.com/ppc/blue-white-power-mac-g3.html>
Referring to the G3 Rev.1 from the page:
A common suggestion in the old days was to put the hard drive on the 16.7
MBps ATA-3 bus used by the optical drive, but the Rev. 1 motherboard
doesn't support booting from hard drives on that bus. See the Wikipedia
article about the Blue & White G3 for a lot more information about Rev. 1
failings.
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