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Possible for old HD to be put in Ext.case?
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Big Mike
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I have a beige 266 desktop G3 w/ a 4 gig. HD. Is it possible for me to take my old HD put it in an external case as a backup/slave for my new HD?
Am new to hardware tech. I would appreciate any additional advice in how to set the G3 to recognize both drives individually when starting up....
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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It would be really hard to put an IDE drive in an external case as the length of the cable is a problem. You could leave it inside the case mounted elsewhere and as a slave. This doesn't always work in the earlier beige G3's, but some people have had success.
If you wanted to buy a firewire card, you could put your drive in an empty firewire hard drive case and use it that way. Almost all firewire drives are IDE drives with a firewire converter on the end.
drewman
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Seagull
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Since the beige G3 came with a built-in SCSI port, you could buy an external SCSI hard disk case and a SCSI hard disk and connect it to your Mac. Although the Narrow SCSI (25-pin) built into earlier Macs are not as fast as more current SCSI but the speed is quite adequate to start the Mac from the external SCSI disk and run some programs at quite good speed.
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But since the drive is IDE that SCSI solution wouldn't work...
The only affordable solution that I know if his from <A HREF="http://www.blol.com/">Bottom Line Distribution</A>. They sell a $75 external case that uses USB (it has an IDE to USB controller card). Of course, your Beige G3 doesn't have USB unless you added it, so you'll have to spend about $25-$30 on a 2-port USB card (not a bad investment given the number of USB peripherals). All told, you're looking at spending about $100 to save a 4 GB IDE drive... the drive itself isn't even worth that much, though.
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hey, it is entirely possible that the HD the chap mentioned (he did not say whether it was SCSI or IDE) is an IBM UW SCSI 4G HD, Apple put many of them into beige G3's, though I believe it was an option, not standard gear...
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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If your G3 is a revision B beige, then you may be able to put the HD in as a slave internally (big advantage of the desktop over the tower, an extra drive bay). If it's older, you could do what my brother did and replace the IDE CD-ROM with a SCSI one, which gives you a faster CD-ROM drive and lets you use the old CD's IDE connector for your drive.
Currently my brother's beige minitower has 2 IDE drives (6 & 20 gig) along with a SCSI CD and 4 gig SCSI drive, my old G3 beige has only a single 10gig IDE drive, along with 4 & 6 gig SCSI drives.
It's impressive what you can cram in there 
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Aaron
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if the HD is IDE... you cant run IDE external, BUT
there is acompany in Oz called Blackfire that says it has a single device adapter to convert IDE to SCSI. put that adapter and the drive in an external SCSI box and you have your wish.
adapter is around 100 bucks american i believe
if the drive is SCSI...you are home free
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bluefire 529
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Another company that provides this kind of solution (IDE to SCSI ext. case) is ProDirect. I can get you more info if you would like it via email.
scottp@computize.com
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