Bill Rising <brising at Louisville.edu> wrote: > Before doing this be sure that your Beige G3 is new enough to allow a > second hard drive. Rev 1 Beige G3's won't handle a second drive. The way > for you to tell if your machine can handle a 2nd drive is to look at its > serial number. If it starts with XB818, then you are good to go. > Otherwise Allan's method won't work, 'cuz you won't be able to install a > second internal drive.
My beige G3 serial number begins with XB809, older than the model you mention, and it ran the second drive as a substitution, not an addition. The computer can run two drives. It had been running a hard drive and a CD drive. All I did was substitute a second hard drive in place of the CD drive, temporarily. The bus didn't know the difference. Imagine the computer laying spread bat-winged on the table, with the CD drive on another table. Where the CD drive used to be, there was now a second hard drive, laying loose inside the computer, using the cables that were supposed to supply the CD drive. Allan Atherton The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
