> At 3:32 PM -0400 8/28/04, StarMax List wrote:Each of the internal IDE buses can support only 1 drive and address up to 128 GB on a disk.
The odd thing is that I know of an Apple Service technician in Canada who absolutely insists that not only can that motherboard support slave drives, but that he has personally done so.
The consensus seems to be that slave drives do work on a StarMax in Linux, it seems to be a Mac OS limitation not a hardware one.
I only wish I got this dude to tell me how he did it, I will try to remember to ask him next time he's around, probably a bit later.
The one disk per IDE bus is a limitation of the ROM code in the StarMax (as supplied by Apple), not the hardware. This is why Linux can do it as it does not use any of the ROM code, except the lowest level boot code. Your service technician friend might know of a way to get the Apple OS to support 2 drives per channel, but I suspect he is actually running Linux. The boot ROM issue is also why when people sell their Beige G3s you should always confirm if it is a Rev A or B, as the Rev A's only supported one drive per IDE channel while the Rev B's will support 2 drives. You can take a Rev B rom and plug it into a Rev A system and it will support 2 drives per channel.
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