On Jul 5, 2004, at 12:30, Robert Kersting wrote: > Bill: > > If you're talking about the original G3 Mini Tower, in its standard > configuration, you can put at least two drives in it. The original > drive sits at the top rear of the case. The second drive can go in an > empty bay at the front of the machine.
If I want to put in a SCSI drive... Unfortunately, the laptop drives are ATA drives. Not all of the G3s can take 2 ATA drives: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24342 > > If you add a host adapter card and are willing to sacrifice a Zip, Cd > or floppy drive, you can get three or even four drives installed. Of > couse at some point you're probably gonna start taxing the power > supply. ... but a SCSI card just to zero the disks seems like a lot. I think I'm just too lazy for the gain. I mean ? who really wants to buy a 6GB hard drive any more? Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
