[ThisGuy]

Do I have to partition the the drive on one of these before I can install OS X.2? The article states the Power Macintosh G3 is susceptible, but do they mean the Beige G3 or the B&W G3?

Macintosh: Gray or White Screen After Hard Drive Upgrade
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25249

[The Placid Casual]

I had a dig around Apple-History.com and found the following data sheet on the 'yosemtie' range of B&W G3s...

CPU: PowerPC 750
CPU Speed: 300/350/400/450 Mhz
FPU: integrated
Bus Speed: 100 Mhz
Data Path: 64 bit
ROM: 1 MB ROM + 3 MB toolbox ROM loaded into RAM
RAM Type: PC100
Mininum RAM Speed: 133 Mhz
Onboard RAM: 0 MB
RAM Slots: 4
Maximum RAM: 1 GB
Level 1 Cache: 32 k data, 32k instruction
Level 2 Cache: 1 MB backside, 1:2
Video Card: ATI RAGE 128
VRAM: 16 MB
Maximum Resolution: 24 bit 1600x1200
Slots: 3 64-bit 33Mhz PCI, 1 32-bit 66 Mhz PCI (filled)
Zip Drive: optional
Optical Drive: 32x CD-ROM, DVD/DVD-RAM available
Hard Disk: 6-12 GB (up to 3 36 GB available BTO)
ATA Bus: Ultra ATA
Ethernet: 10/100Base-T
USB: 2
FireWire: 2
Video Out: VGA
Audio Out: stereo 16 bit mini
Audio In: stereo 16 bit mini
Speaker(s): mono
Modem: optional 56 kbps
Gestalt ID: 406
Power: 200 Watts
Weight: 28.7 lbs.
Dimentions: 17" H x 8.9" W x 18.4" D
Minimum OS: 8.5.1
Maximum OS: 10.2.4
Introduced: January 1999
Terminated: September 1999

I suspect the server model didn't ship with a drive under 8Gig, but I would guess that the KBase article would still apply as the B&W 'model' in general did...

I would be safe rather than sorry...

Peace,

Marc

[ThisGuy]

thanks for the info. i will check out apple-history.com. i just got this machine for FREE and would like to know what i can look forward to. i have a 60GB HD that has 10.2.5 on it and want to throw it in and not have to worry about the startup issues. thanks again for the info. anybody else have one of these machines that boots on a partition larger than 8GB?

[davidflas]

The 8GB limitation applies only to beige G3's. I have one and had to buy a new ide card in order to use the western digital 120GB HD that I put in it. You should be just fine with drives up to 137 gb in your Mac.

[ThisGuy]

Originally posted by davidflas:
The 8GB limitation applies only to beige G3's. I have one and had to buy a new ide card in order to use the western digital 120GB HD that I put in it. You should be just fine with drives up to 137 gb in your Mac.

thanks for you help. i put in a 60GB drive earlier today and found out that it was VERY corrupt. i got segment loader errors and it refused to boot about 90% of the time. no diagnostics could repair it, so i am trying to back it up to an external drive and i will reinstall 10.2.5 later, if the drive isn't failing.

do SCSI and IDE play nicely together? i have 2 drives in it and took them out.

[tooki]

Yes, they work fine together, albeit with the caveat that, IMHO, add-on SCSI cards never work as well as the motherboard SCSI Apple used to install.

Blue G3s will boot off 8+GB partitions. The limitation is only for beige G3s and (I think) early iMacs.

tooki

[ThisGuy]

man i love these fourms! you guys are always so helpful. please give each other $20 and pat each other on the back. all jokes aside, Thank You!