Gee Three

I'm edging closer towards just looking for a stock 6Gb drive at this stage. For what I want to use the G3 for it's plenty and I know it'll work fine. With the cables swapped I was able to install from OSXS 1.0 up to OS X DP1. DP2 and up "can't find root device" if the drive isn't on the proper channel and then fail with corrupted files when it is. I also had to disconnect the Zip drive whilst doing all this as it would hang the boot process. Either it's not compatible with OSXS or it was the "wrong channel" effect.

It's been a bit of an adventure but I've learned how to boot cds and hard drives from OF and also that Macs really don't like it if you plug the IDE cables into the wrong ports.

While we're talking about flashing cards, I was able to flash my AHA-2940UW back to the original PC firmware without any hassle. So if anyone was thinking of trying out a PC->Mac conversion, it's reversible.

I'm looking on eBay now and it seems all the cheap and nasty SATA cards are Via-based. The Sil ones are a bit pricier. Do you know any Mac SATA card vendors that use the Via chipset?

There is one that I have seen that uses a VIA chipset. I have not been able to find any firmware for it though. http://www.macsense.com/product/storage/sua-100e.html

Everything else seems to be SiliconImage or some other brands that cost $$$, and there is one VITESSE VSC-7174.

For bootable cards anyway. Most are OS X only and a couple are OS 9 compatible.

Where I get my PC parts I can pickup a Sil3512 for $15

I kept digging and found a cheap Sil3112 and WiebeTech have a card based on it. Question is, will it boot...

Something else I've been wanting to try is Descent OpenGL with my AppleJack controllers (as it added InputSprocket support along with hardware acceleration). If I can configure it to control the ship with the trackball that would be all kinds of awesome. I can now do that too as there's an ADB port on the back of this G3.

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Epic!