>Evening. > >I gather the main hard drive in the 7300 is SCSI. I have an IDE 10 gig in >my 4400. Is there space in the 7300 to install my IDE drive in the 7300. I >know I will need to get and ATA card.
You have, as I see it, 3 options here: 1. Buy an ACARD SCSIDE adapter board. The one that fits in a tray under the drive is best but only comes in 68-pin IIRC and you need a 68-50-pin adapter that is thin enough to fit behind the drive in that case. The module that fits on the back of the drive as a 'piggy-back' comes in 50-pin and 68-pin but the 50-pin module is too wide to fit in a 3.5" drive bay. I used a cunning method to fit mine, I made up a short 40-pin IDE Ribbon with a plug one end and a socket the other and extended the port at the back of the drive out by about 4" to the large space next to the CD drive. It quite happily sits in there and my 40GB Seagate U-5 hasn't complained since. SCSIDE adapters range from $60-100 and only serve a single drive, I originally bought mine for a NuBus Quadra 840av as I had no real alternative. 2. But a PCI ATA adapter card. This fits in a PCI slot (a problem if you already have 3 cards) and will run up to 4 drives. The earlier ATA/33 and ATA/66 cards had timing issues with the bus in Pre-G3 PowerMacs but most newer ATA/100 cards have since rectified this AFAIK. PCI ATA cards are between $60 and $120 I think and you'd be well advised to avoid ones with the 'stutter' problem I mentioned with the bus timing. 3. If you have a FireWire PCI card already you could put the hard disk in an external case and use it that way. You will not be able to boot off it if you use a PCI card as the Mac doesn't recognise it until Mac OS loads the FireWire drivers to tell the machine it's around. Make sure you get a case with an Oxford 911 bridge controller if you do this to get the best speed from your drive. Cases with 911 Bridge technology are commonplace now and available for under $100 I think. Don't do USB external hard disks, it's slow and much less reliable. My prices might be a bit off as I'm in the UK so I' not altogether aware of the US market price for the various items but I think I covered it all. -- -- Mark Benson Any spelling errors are attributed to PEBKAC SilValleyPirate - AIM silicon_valley_pirate_uk - Yahoo! Visit Flat Pack Macs Online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> Macintosh LC Central -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
