My last Mac was a BW R1. The controller was major heartburn. To get
it to work at all, I had to keep going back to smaller harddrives. The
largest one I could find that resulted in no corruption was an old 9
GB originally installed in a beige G3. I finally tracked down a new
old stock Acard
On Apr 11, 9:44 am, Ruffin rufw...@gmail.com wrote:
... 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?
I've got a Rev 1 BW 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
On 4/11/10, Ruffin rufw...@gmail.com wrote:
I do vaguely recall thinking that using Yellow Dog sidestepped some of
the driver issues, but I can't find that now.
you can download the latest cd version of yellowdog Linux here:
http://ydl.oregonstate.edu/iso/yellowdog-5.0.2-20070711.iso
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