I've got a Rev 1 B&W I received for a song, and I'm a little confused about its hard drive controller issues. It seems, after some Googling around here and xlr8yourmac, like the slave on the fast controller is always bad news, and that occasionally even the single HD on that controller can become corrupted.
Is there anything wrong with following the advice here: http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list/msg/3ebab32a163d89cc ... but having that slave hard drive in the zip slot being my boot drive? Let's go ahead and assume I don't care about hard drive speed at all. Anything wrong (or better?) with putting the HD on master and moving the optical drive to slave? As far as I can tell, PCI card controllers are too expensive to consider for this box. I could buy a much newer computer for the price of the card. So I need to find the cheapest (ie, "creative") solution to keep this thing from getting its data corrupted if I want to get it up and running productively. I do vaguely recall thinking that using Yellow Dog sidestepped some of the driver issues, but I can't find that now. I'd be happy with a Linux B&W, if that's any safer. Thanks! Ruffin -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
