There was a time when I didn't think i'd ever come back into the community again. I checked in on the troops recently though and really felt as though there were certain conquests …

Nope, didn't work . . .

How terribly anticlimactic. Oh well.

It's not hard to find decent SATA drive to PATA bus adapters. Whether or not some are flakey, plenty are just fine. I'm using several - one is on a PowerMac G4 with a 1 TB drive, a…

I didn't buy it.

Yeah! It kills me when this happens.

As for the Daystar Diskrunner, I know next to nothing about it. Click to expand... Same here, but I do seem to recall someone else here extolling their virtues. I'll see if I …

The onboard PATA bus can do 133MHz/channel, so unless you really need more than 1.5TB of storage you should be set. You could even do set up a software RAID in Disk Utility for ex…

So, Dog Cow, how does this saga end? You can't just leave us hanging!

As for the adapters, the kind that let you put a PATA drive on a SATA computer are significantly more reliable than the other way 'round. Yes, there are ones to put SATA drives on…

In part maybe, but it likely has much more to do with the ROM code not recognizing the foreign floppy drive, or the pinouts not conforming to Apple's hardware specs.

Sil3512 can be. If their rom is stored on a flashable chip. I have a really cheap possibly shady one from a bargain bin in Japan with very few markings on it and it does not flash …

any info on which cards can be flashed?

Finding bootable SATA cards which just work isn't easy. Click to expand... You need a card that makes use of the 64bit PCI slot for best performance.In my G4 I use a flashed ch…

Ah, that's definitely a plausible explanation. I never even thought of that, but differing drive head properties would certainly explain it. That might also explain why when my fr…

I'd be careful going the SATA-to-IDE adapter route. It's uncommon, but there have been instances where the adapters are not 100% compatible with a given drive, resulting in unrecov…

its definately strange. thats the first thing i noticed when i opened it up. seen the 16mhz CPU, and was like, what the heck? Me hurrying up and sell it for one fluke? or think it…

Those solder pads are in all production model LCIIIs, no LCIII that I've seen ever had a switch there, just the solder pads.

Yeah I don't see any telltale signs of proto boards. Looks fine. The only thing might be the Reset label... Just two pads.

IDE drives top out at 750 gigs for no technical reason - the market just went to SATA. Finding bootable SATA cards which just work isn't easy. It'd be a lot better to get a $15 US…

Thats really quite strange, thats definitely an LCIII board, but no LCIII was ever sold with anything less than a 25 Mhz 68030, and yes, thats definitely a 16 Mhz '030, otherwise i…

That's quite something. You've got an amazing machine there. Keep it and guard it with your life. Or sell it quick.

system running pic: http://0ki.info/uploads/26e4ef999e.jpg

I am a jealous, jealous man right now. Any unwanted goodies among the haul of audio gear?

Here is the picture: last time i checked the MC68030FE16B was a 16mhz clocked processor. Full size: http://0ki.info/uploads/919e9798d5.jpg thumbnail { "lightbox_close":…