I just bought a 30GB ATA/66 hard drive for my rev. A beige G3. Unfortunately, the rev. A can only handle two IDE devices at a time (i.e. the hard drive and the CD-ROM), so I've got…

What does the ROM have anything to do with having more ATA devices? The IDE controller is controlled by an entirely seperate controller... To my understanding, IDE generally comes …

The problem is that the rev. A ROM doesn't support master/slave configurations. (I suppose I just answered my own question.) As for my new HD, good point. I probably should have…

Where can you get ATA/66 cards for $49 anyways??

Staples has them. (You'd be amazed what you can get for a Mac, there!)

Just to clarify for some: the ROM in the Rev. A Beige G3 does not allow for master/slave configuration on the IDE Bus. Swapping it out with a Rev. B or Rev. C ROM will give you tha…

My blue/white G3 does not support ATA 66. i had to get HDToolkit to knock the drive down to 33.. not sure if this applies to beige G3's, it's just a fair warning. kinda off the s…

Just to clarify for some: the ROM in the Rev. A Beige G3 does not allow for master/slave configuration on the IDE Bus. Swapping it out with a Rev. B or Rev. C ROM will give you tha…

If I understand correctly, IDE is controlled by the CPU, so an ATA card won't get rid of that overhead...I'm not positive on that though, since I didn't do the ATA HD interface for…

Evangellydonut � (Great name, btw.) Anyway, what's this about the Fireball Plus LM only being able to come up with ?27MB/sec? It's a ATA/66 drive (or at least, it was advertised…

B&W G3 handles ATA/100 or ATA/66 drives fine using Drive Setup 1.9.2. No need to use FWB (3.02 doesn't support OS 9 and 4.0 sounds buggy). Apple ships some current G4 configura…

ATA/66 drives doesn't mean it'll transfer files at such speed, only means that it supports such interface. Currently, the fastest IDE HD avilable is the IBM Deskstar75GXP, and that…

Okay. I think I've got this straight. After all this, the bottom line seems to be that the ROM upgrade would be the way to go, since the mobo can handle more than the drive is capa…

This post isn't really about hacking your mac per-se, but more about some random things I just read on Moto's page... First, regarding Mezzanie slot...that thing is used by Moto t…

In theory, DVD RAM capable (if you can get a DVD RAM slot loader) or CD-RW. 75 Gig drive, 1.5 gig ram, and maybe Ca$h could swap the Rage 128Pro for an AGP Radeon when they're avai…

Cube mods??? Honestly, could we wait until they actually ship before thinking of ways to tear them apart?

Actually, the cube has a AGP2x slot, so a voodoo5 would fit nicely int here wouldnt it? But seriously. HOLY **** . I want one SOOO bad. Anyone want my iMac? DVD and AGP2x, +…

I thought they were cool too, until I started thinking about it. No PCI slots, and you can bet Apple's done their very best to make them non-upgradeable, (they seemed to do a prett…

Ca$h, the V5 AGP will NOT fit in the iBorg. From what I read, the V5 itself is 13 inches in length! Mac hobbiest will get the dual CPU G4 tower, since that's got much more juice f…

I don't see how you could fit a Raedon, Voodoo, or GeForce in a cube for a few reasons. 1) The Voodoos are way too big 2) The GeForce and Raedon both require fans or large heatsin…

1) Voodoo will definitely NOT fit. It's way too big and way too hot. a quad V5 (6000) will raise the ambient temperature by almost 10C! 2)Radeon has a built-in fan on board. Might …

Quote: Originally posted by Evangellydonut: [Also, Apple will use the Radeon chip-set as rumored. The reason it didn't happen at MacWorld is because ATI was info leak th…

I've heard talk of GameWizards no longer working after upgrading to 8.6. And finally getting around to buying one, can anyone tell me if this is true? I have a Rev/A with 8.6.1 an…

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Hey there. I've recently installed an internal CD-RW (Yamaha, SCSI-3) in my rev. A beige G3's empty drive bay. (It looks great having two CD-ROMs! I had to move the zip drive down�…