I recently got a B&W Powermac G3 400 Rev.2 w/768mb of RAM for 25$. It had several issues, mostly relating to its SCSI disk failing and the IDE disk I was trying to use also being dead. It came with its original 8.6 restore disc; and using that I now have a clean install on a 40gb IDE drive on the ATA/33 channel. When I get a set of Tiger CD's I'm going to try putting that on it.
The Issue: It won't accept two devices on the 16.7 channel. If I have both the CD drive AND the Zip drive connected on the same channel(as they are supposed to be) it refuses to boot. After chiming it will show a gray screen and then a folder with a ? and is unresponsive to a reset from the power button. (Meaning to turn it off, I must pull the plug) Has anyone had this issue or know what may be causing it?
The Issue: It won't accept two devices on the 16.7 channel. If I have both the CD drive AND the Zip drive connected on the same channel(as they are supposed to be) it refuses to boot. After chiming it will show a gray screen and then a folder with a ? and is unresponsive to a reset from the power button. (Meaning to turn it off, I must pull the plug) Has anyone had this issue or know what may be causing it?