On Saturday, August 18, 2001, at 09:32 am, Kyle Hansen wrote:
> Huh? I replace B&W drives all the time with 20-40gb Maxtor's and I
> have never
> had a problem. What are you talking about?
>
> -- Kyle H. Hansen
OMG! Kyle in 'Hasn't experienced this problem yet' shocker. I thought
you knew the lot ;)
Anyhooo, Apple has officially documented a definite problem with the IDE
controller chip on Rev. 1 B&W G3s, it's in the G3 section of the TIL. It
has been found (from what I've read) to manifest itself on newer high
capacity ATA/100 drives, like the IBM 60GXP 40GB drives for one. I read
into it after i discovered I had a Rev. 1 and considered adding an
ATA/100 PCI card. I decided not to and will hang out for a G4/5. I've
got plenty of room anyway, if I move my MP3s to my PC. It only really
badly effects machines that have heavy hard disk through-put as it is
only a minute corruption but it is consistent. I know some ppl do say
'never bothers me', I for one have no problems with mine and it has two
drives in (6GB stock Maxtor + 10GB Fujitsu). Others using IBM drives
have suffered problems, especially when opening and saving huge
documents. It's a patchy problem. I personally believe leaving the stock
drive in as master helps.
--
Mark Benson
aka SiliconValleyPirate
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"Better to be a pirate than join the Navy"
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