Mike & Carol Fuller wrote:
I have a rev 2 B&W G3 with 3x9GB scsi drives installed. Because of the
limitation of running my boot disk on 9GB, and the high cost of larger
SCSI drives, I want to replace one of the drives with a cheaper IDE
(attached to the Ultra ATA port).
Are there any problems in doing this, or anything I should be aware of?
Can I use any size IDE drive?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Mike Fuller
Hi Mike
I would put a lone 80 GB IDE on the Primary IDE channel and the optical
(and zip) drive on the secondary. I'm liking www.evox.com.au for IDE
pricing at the moment.
My B&W has a second IDE drive where the Zip was, it is a 160 GB unit but
it had to be initialised by a machine capable of seeing +128 GB and I
believe it isnt performing as it could anyway.
I would also look into a RAID setup for the SCSI drives, but thats me, a
rev-head ;)
Dont overlook IDE adapter cards if you can afford one either, a good bit
of future-proofing indeed, then you could use a drive much larger than
80 GB which could be better value and performance.
Good Luck
Paul
