266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #28

Post #28 by Dan 7.1

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	PowerPC
Post Date	Sun, 15 Mar 2009 - 06:38
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/266mhz-beige-g3-mini-tower-buildup.16446/

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are the beiges able to boot off of an ATA drive at all? I have a 266 Desktop and it will not boot off of any devices not on the 50-pin SCSI bus, and even then it will only recognize a primary partition of up to 8GB, even if the drive is bigger. The 8GB limitation is a problem with Revision A boards, I know, but I had thought the bus-boot issue was across the board.

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They most certainly are, in fact most, if not all should have shipped with an ATA hard drive.

ahh actually no. I have a rev a gossamer and it came with a SCSI drive and no IDE drive at all. we later added a 40GB IDE drive, but when time came to put OSX on it we had to buy a 9GB SCSI drive because it would not work off of the IDE drive.