Hello. Well i got my mac off of eBay. It ran for about 45 minutes and when i went to use it later on it gave me the vertical bars. It looked like the capacitors on the logic boar…

A powered USB hub should do it then Wayne

Some laptop ports are underpowered, by my guess to save power when you use them on battery. I had this issue when i got an iPod Touch and I only had my iBook 500Mhz with me and it …

You folks guessed right, my drives are not powered by external power. I'm really surprised that the PB 17" USB 2.0 ports don't have enough juice, isn't that weird? I'm very optimi…

Oh cool! Now does this just pretty much modify the NVRAM making it independent of the software once installed? Like i install it, turn it on, and i can swap out the hard drive with…

It basically means that your powerbook can't provide the necessary power to spool up the HDDs. You might either need to get a USB -> IDE/SATA Converter that you can apply e…

Whenever I plug in the hard drives, they both started to make a clicking sound. Uh oh, there may be something really wrong and I thought my data was long gone. Click to expand..…

I'm at my wit's end and thought I'd give it a shot on this forum. I have two hard drives, one an external WD Passport 120GB that was formatted for Mac and the other is an internal…

Right. Rev 1 B&W G3 does NOT support booting from slave IDE devices because the on-board ROM for the controller does not understand how to access slave devices. OS …

Oh cool! Now does this just pretty much modify the NVRAM making it independent of the software once installed? Like i install it, turn it on, and i can swap out the hard drive with…

Rev 1 B&W G3 does NOT support booting from slave IDE devices because the on-board ROM for the controller does not understand how to access slave devices. OS X overcomes th…

Rev 1 B&W G3 does NOT support booting from slave IDE devices because the on-board ROM for the controller does not understand how to access slave devices. OS X overcomes th…

I had 4 hard drives in my Gigabit G4. As long as jumper settings are set. It works. Sure I had no optical drive, but it worked. Click to expand... That's nothing special. The R…

I had 4 hard drives in my Gigabit G4. As long as jumper settings are set. It works. Sure I had no optical drive, but it worked. Click to expand... I think the point of this thr…

I had 4 hard drives in my Gigabit G4. As long as jumper settings are set. It works. Sure I had no optical drive, but it worked.

What is the difference with Rev 1 and 2 with respect to HDs? I have 2 Rev 2 units and both I think have a 1 single and 2 dual HD trays (for 5 total) plus the cdrom and zip drive ba…

I did that some time back. Used three 10gb drives raided. Wayne

The forum user Aoresteen had been also been able to do this in his Rev 1 B&W; he hasn't posted in a while though.

Yes, I've finally done it. I've had 2 drives running flawlessly in my 1st B&W G3 for many years now, so today I decided to try and get 3 running in my #2 G3. Specs are ve…

My 10.4 disk is kinda scratched so i will try and make an image from it and burn a fresh copy, try a brand new HDD and if i can a new DVD rom. Click to expand... Could also be …

Oh cool! Now does this just pretty much modify the NVRAM making it independent of the software once installed? Like i install it, turn it on, and i can swap out the hard drive with…

I'd try another IDE cable. Can you get the new HD to work off a single IDE chain on its own? JB Click to expand... I tried it piggy backed off the CD-ROM. I have tried a hand…

I'd try another IDE cable. Can you get the new HD to work off a single IDE chain on its own? JB

Oh cool! Now does this just pretty much modify the NVRAM making it independent of the software once installed? Like i install it, turn it on, and i can swap out the hard drive wit…

If you have say, a spare 6GB or something, install os x to that and then get OverDrive installed/turned on so you can then get drives bigger then 128GB in there. http://mac.profus…