Hi
Not a problem here, but just a little tip. I have
discovered that I can trick any g-3 slot loader into
accepting and using ALL the space on a big IDE drive.
I simply format the drive on a g-4 Emac and use Carbon
Copy Cloner to put a bootable folder on the new drive.
I can do this fairly conveniently because the Emac(ati
graphics) has two ide controllers. I just drilled a
little slot in the white plastic cover and ran a round
ata cable through it. One end powers the cd ROM and
the other the drive. I use an external power supply to
power the other drive under my desk. In any case,
having the big drive is great. Even though it is not
used to its fastest transfer potential, the 16 MB
cache is nice and the 7200 rpm spin gives faster
read/writes. The system's boot and run just
fine(g3-500 g3 600 g3 400 DVD SE). The only downside
is that I cannot repair the permissions without the
firmware remembering its marching orders(even in
target mode from the Emac). Still pulling it out
occasionally to run disk utility on it is not such a
big deal in order to use such a big fast drive on a
daily basis. By the way, the emac has a 250 GB drive
in it without a hiccup. This is using 0s x 10.3.9 I
don't know if this would work with classic.
Have fun!
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