Re: G3 Beige Tower Questions

2011-07-13 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 12, 10:06 am, t...@io.com t...@prismnet.com wrote: In order to find which ROM you have, go to the Apple System Profiler and check the ROM or Firmware Revision.  $77D.40F2 is revision A.   If it shows something like $77D.45F6 then you are probably running OSX and it has remapped the

Re: G3 Beige Tower Questions

2011-07-12 Thread dc
On Jul 11, 2:23 pm, iainnitro jmikeneed...@gmail.com wrote: I found this group via LEM, naturally.  I was looking up specs on my newly acquired G3 Beige Tower.  I am actually writing to find out if I can replace the SCSI (9 GB) Drive with a nice ATA adapter (and which one I need) so I can put

Re: G3 Beige Tower Questions

2011-07-12 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 11, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: However, the Beige G3's already have an ATA drive. IIRC ones sold as servers came with SCSI drives, but there is an ATA (66 IIRC) port on the mobo as well. If there's no ATA connector you may actually have an old 604

Re: G3 Beige Tower Questions

2011-07-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:06 AM, t...@io.com wrote: Or find one of the serial ATA cards, so you may get an inexpensive modern drive. Another option is buying a cheap Firewire PCI card and booting from an external Firewire HD which is relatively fast and cheap. -- You received this message

Re: G3 Beige Tower Questions

2011-07-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:06 AM, t...@io.com wrote: Or find one of the serial ATA cards, so you may get an inexpensive modern drive. Another option is buying a cheap Firewire PCI card and booting from an external Firewire HD which is

Re: G3 Beige Tower Questions

2011-07-12 Thread admin
I also had andual ATA card in mine which read as a SCSI bus. As you note, I was able to boot a system and not be sub jetc to the 8 gig rule. On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:10 AM, dc wrote: I have a G3 tower which I still occasionally use, I gave it an ATTO express SCSI card and a 15K SCSI 68-pin

G3 Beige Tower Questions

2011-07-11 Thread iainnitro
Greetings: I found this group via LEM, naturally. I was looking up specs on my newly acquired G3 Beige Tower. I am actually writing to find out if I can replace the SCSI (9 GB) Drive with a nice ATA adapter (and which one I need) so I can put at least an 80 GB drive into the box. The current

Re: G3 Beige Tower Questions

2011-07-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:23 AM, iainnitro wrote: Greetings: I found this group via LEM, naturally. I was looking up specs on my newly acquired G3 Beige Tower. I am actually writing to find out if I can replace the SCSI (9 GB) Drive with a nice ATA adapter (and which one I need) so I can