> but you are reminding me that an IDE bus can take two devices, if one is > master and one is slave. > > which makes me ask if this machine's IDE controller can handle 2 > devices on the IDE bus. > > what if I forsook the internal scsi bus, and instead put a 2 device IDE > ribbon on the IDE bus, and set my IDE hard drive to master, and the DVD > drive to slave? > > > apple never expected us to do this...but if IDE can take 2 devices.. > could I?. > In order to do that on a beige G3, you need a ROM upgrade. Haven't seen anybody talk about ROM upgrades for other machines.
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