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Slave HD in Rev1 BW G3 — #1

Has anyone here successfully installed a second internal IDE HD on a Rev. 1 Yosemite G3 (HD brackets side by side, not stacking). The Apple TIL says its not possible, but xlr8your…
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Slave HD in Rev1 BW G3 — #2

I've got a 27 gig IDE HD slaved in the zip bay (slave to the DVD rom drive) and a 6gig (salvaged from my old G3 Beige) slaved to the main 6gig IDE in my BW, which is also Rev 1. I'…
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Slave HD in Rev1 BW G3 — #3

You can also buy a cheap PCI ATA card and run both drives off of that, or leave the stock drive there and buy *two* new ones to run off the ATA card.
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Slave HD in Rev1 BW G3 — #4

Don't put the hard drive in the zip bay...I've heard it's not designed to take that heat and can screw things up pretty bad.
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Slave HD in Rev1 BW G3 — #5

On the Rev 1 B&W the computer will recognise both Master and Slave IDE hard drives, but support for both devices on the same bus wasn't all the way there. You can use each ch…
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Slave HD in Rev1 BW G3 — #6

Quote: Originally posted by Sgt. Baxter: You can also buy a cheap PCI ATA card and run both drives off of that, or leave the stock drive there and buy *two* new ones to …
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Slave HD in Rev1 BW G3 — #7

Quote: Originally posted by Doug Brown: Don't put the hard drive in the zip bay...I've heard it's not designed to take that heat and can screw things up pretty bad. …
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Slave HD in Rev1 BW G3 — #8

Quote: Originally posted by AP@cultfiction.com: what happens cuz that's where I put a slave 26 gig ide..... the mounting bays at the bottom really suck.... I've be…
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Slave HD in Rev1 BW G3 — #9

Machine: rev1 B&W G3 I've also got a 27BG IDE drive in the zip compartment and it's been fine for 5 months now, with the machine sometimes running for 48hrs at a time, never ha…
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OSX and iMac Game Wizard — #1

After the WWDC I was drooling over the prospect of getting OSX. Then it hit me. The iMac Game Wizard uses two extensions: Game Wizard MacGlide and Game Wizard RAVE. Since OSX is…
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OSX and iMac Game Wizard — #2

Hey, don't tell me that ATI's cards don't require any extensions; they all do. Obviously for OS X, there will be some type of system level driver support and developers will build …
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OSX and iMac Game Wizard — #3

At the same time, though, Apple may not add support for Mez cards... sort like, "I told you so!" to developers who went against what Apple told them and made Mez cards anyway. Now…
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OSX and iMac Game Wizard — #4

Don't worry. Just run all your games in Classic.app, a 'classic' environment built in MacOS X that allows you to run MacOS 9.
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Hard drive operating temperatures — #1

Hello all, I've got a WD 4GB IDE disk that came with an AIO G3. I'm putting it in an envoronment that will vary from -10 to 180 deg F, and I'm using a 50W TE plate to heat and co…
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DVD ROM for iMac Rev A? — #1

Hi guys I have an original (Rev A) iMac. Is it possible to hook up an INTERNAL DVD ROM instead of the apple CD ROM drive? I've bought an external USB to IDE bridge. It comes wit…
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DVD ROM for iMac Rev A? — #2

as you said, it would not be possible to play dvd movies (no onboard mpeg decompression) but it should be able to (with the proper drivers) to read and access dvd-data. The other p…
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