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I notice the case of a G3 B&W edition it has up to 3 hard drives it can mount in the case, but yet the ribbon cable included with the Mac can only attach to one drive. I tried mutli ATA ribbons to no avail and I'm not sure what else I can do.
Can someone help me?
Thanks
Power Mac G3 (B&W)-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.4.11), 256MB/20GB/PPC
those PCI cards should work fine in both OS 9 and OS X, I have a similar RAID version in my G4 and can boot OS 9 and X with it. If you are getting a new larger drive and want to boot into OS9, the OS 9 System Folder must be on a partition <200GB in order to boot the machine. If you are just using the OS 9 System Folder for Classic emulation under OS X, then the partition size does not matter.
you could install one new drive on the PCI card, format it and copy files over from the original drive on the existing ATA channel. Once your backup is fully functional, then you can connect the old drive to the new PCI card. For better performance you should put both drives as their own Master on separate cables into the two ports of the new ATA PCI card, if you can get the cables to fit in there. When copying from one drive to another drive on the same cable, you may have a bottleneck over the shared ATA channel.
I tried to find a contact on your profile to no avail. Sorry for the delay, I haven't been able to respond throughly and been busy this past week. Please let me know where to privately contact you.
Steven
Steven,
Sorry, I thought my eMail address would be available on my profile. I'm not just sure where to go from here. I don't think hey like you to post it on the forum.
Jon
In yor Profile>Edit Profile & Privacy>Privacy Settings tam>Wmail, you can set who can view it. 🙂
Done! Thanks, BD... jws
thanks for that offline offer, after a little tinkering with the slave/master and trying to get around several runins w/ the blinking question mark, both drives mounted. Thanks very much!
Adding second hard drive to B&W G3
