on 11/20/03 7:05 AM, Dave Checkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The foolproof way to find what model G3 you have is to open it up and > look for the controller chip (fairly good size). If the designation > "402" is printed on the chip, you have Rev. 2. Not surprisingly, I have some confusion among the terms ROM, MoBo, and machine in trying to determine which whatever I have. Is the ROM version as displayed in System Profiler and description of the small ROM card that lives on the board? or of the board? or both? If I understand correctly, the big problem in G3's is that the Rev. 1 (MoBo or ROM?) will not support Master/Slave IDE drives thereby limiting the machine to 2 IDE devices run off the native equipment. Some kind lister put up the designators for the rev a,b, &c Rom's recently, but I don't know yet if moving a rev 2 rom card to a (whatever you would designate it) board that originally had a rev 1 ROM would solve the master/slave dilemma. Is there a big bene for moving from rev 2 to rev 3? etc., etc., etc. More light?
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