>Your 7300 (or any other equivalent Mac) will see the UATA controller as a >SCSI controller, and will see any attached hard drives as (simulated) SCSI >hard drives. > >All simulated SCSI hard drives are indeed bootable.
I used to boot my 9600 off my 40 gig 7200rpm Maxstor ATA drive connected to a VST UltraTek/66. It worked great, and is really fast (if you can put up with your mouse lagging during disk i/o to remind you how cheap and fast your hard drive is). YMMV, mine was a little flaky, it actually worked all right, but it refused to run installers with anything related to the IDE card, odd stuff like that. I suspect my 9600 has problems that run deeper than this, causing this difficutly. I'll be getting a G3 upgrade and underclocking the bus to see if that fixes it, but in the mean time I just put in a UWIDE SCSI PCI card from a friend's platinum G3 and hooked it up to an ancient WIDE SCSI IBM UltraStar I had sitting around. It is two gigabytes capacity, which is enough to hold my system folder and applications, and now i just use the (faster, bigger) IDE drive to hold my data files (read: MP3 library). It was a great solution for me, I reccomend it to anyone who wants to use an UltraTek/66 in one of these machines but is worried about how flaky they can be sometimes. Boot your system off a small cheap SCSI disk and use the UT/66 for the rest. -Tyler -- 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
