W & B motherboard rev 1 & 2 ?
MAC PRO & White & Blue, Mac OS X (10.5.6), I NEED ADB for my software
MAC PRO & White & Blue, Mac OS X (10.5.6), I NEED ADB for my software
Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:
The rev 1 Blue & White G3 has a tragic flaw. When its single Hard Drive (the rev 1 does not support two drives) is replaced with a drive FASTER than the original 4, 6, or 8 GB drive, or larger than about 40 GB, it starts making subtle errors in disk transfers. This makes it flaky. Unreliable. It starts making Un-reproduceable errors. Crashes. Freezes. Disk corruption. Never the same thing twice, and never so often that you can catch it.
Some have referred to it as the "HeartBreaker G3".
Jeff wrote:
I have a pair of 400 MHz B&W G3s that shipped with the Rev. 1 motherboard, but my 450 MHz B&W does have the Rev. 2 motherboard. In terms of improvements, the Rev. 2 IDE controller chip merely corrected a programming error, so it can't be considered technology-forward. The older beige G3s have IDE controllers that reliably support drives larger than 40 GBs (up to 128 GBs), and drive RPM isn't a problem. As for the B&W G3s, neither the first nor the revised IDE controller chip supports 48-bit Logical Block Addressing, needed for large drive (128 GBs+ ->)support.
W & B motherboard rev 1 & 2 ?