Yep, this is correct... the generally accepted convention among G3 users/hackers/modders for years has been to the effect thast basically any drive that isnt an identical to what is instsalled out of the factory is likely to give issues when used on the factory internal bus.If it doesnt it's a bonus, but even then, just because one drive works fine, doesnt mean the next will.
There are a number of ways that people have used to get round it... the simplest is simply to run a factory drive as a standalone boot volume on the onboard bus, and install a Mac compatible PCI ATA card to run the larger drive. A variation on this is installing a PCI firewire card with an internal port and running the second hard drive through a Firewire/ATA bridge off the internal firewire port as a firewire device. The other option is to run a bootable SCSI card, however SCSI has severe limitations by todays standards, the biggest being now that SCSI doesnt support drives of capacity greater than 36Gb. Also, SCSI can be fickle.
Me however, I simply opted to replace the logic board (when they were still readily available on the secondhand market in the mid-2000's mind you), as it was a far simpler, cleaner,efficient and also cheaper way of going about it, and ensured continued piece of mind as I was able to run two brand new HDD's instead of relying upon an aging 6Gb Quantum drive to remain in a functional state.
There are a number of ways that people have used to get round it... the simplest is simply to run a factory drive as a standalone boot volume on the onboard bus, and install a Mac compatible PCI ATA card to run the larger drive. A variation on this is installing a PCI firewire card with an internal port and running the second hard drive through a Firewire/ATA bridge off the internal firewire port as a firewire device. The other option is to run a bootable SCSI card, however SCSI has severe limitations by todays standards, the biggest being now that SCSI doesnt support drives of capacity greater than 36Gb. Also, SCSI can be fickle.
Me however, I simply opted to replace the logic board (when they were still readily available on the secondhand market in the mid-2000's mind you), as it was a far simpler, cleaner,efficient and also cheaper way of going about it, and ensured continued piece of mind as I was able to run two brand new HDD's instead of relying upon an aging 6Gb Quantum drive to remain in a functional state.