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Beige DT and Extra Drive
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I got my new old beige DT G3/266 ($75)... perfect condition.
Now I want to put a second drive in (if possible.
Opened it up, and noticed where the zip drive could be, there is enough room for another drive...
Anyone do this? Bad?
Was considering doing one of my front mounted fan's to keep it cool if ventilation is an issue.
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You can do it, I don't think ventilation is an issue. Only issue deals with what ROM your G3 has, if it's B or C you're fine. If it's an A though then your system doesn't support slave devices on the IDE bus. Somewhere online there's a listing of the ROM IDs that you can get in System Profiler but I'm not sure where they are. Do you know when the system was made?
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Found it:
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/action...29&-search
(Last edited by derekn; Mar 1, 2003 at 12:36 PM.
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MY plan was to use an alternat IDE Bus (ACard or Sonnet Tempo) hence, this isn't an issue.
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Originally posted by macvillage.net:
I got my new old beige DT G3/266 ($75)... perfect condition.
Now I want to put a second drive in (if possible.
Opened it up, and noticed where the zip drive could be, there is enough room for another drive...
Anyone do this? Bad?
Was considering doing one of my front mounted fan's to keep it cool if ventilation is an issue.
Yes you can. If your machine is a rev A the problem is that if one of the buses is occupied by your boot drive as master and the cdrom is occupied on the second bus as master, you will find that the rev A's do not support slave drives. You have two possibilities, the first being finding a B series ROM on ebay, the second being running OS X. Apple has patched the roms so that slave drives are enabled on OS X. On my rev A beige DT I have a 45 gig IBM IDE in the basement [master bus 0], a 55 gig WD on the ground floor [slave bus 1] with a LG Combo drive [master bus 1] and the original 4 gig WD in the 'attic' [slave bus 0] along with the defunct [in OS X] floppy. I am thinking about pulling the floppy and putting in a 35 gig SCSI as a boot drive but am a little worried about total power consumption. In any event all get along together just fine - no data corruption. no problems. Have had no cooling problems.
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