>On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 09:57 AM, Eduardo Moratinos wrote:
>
>> The other day I read in LEM about the revision 1 and 2 G3's. The
>> article
>> stated that revision 2 G3's are the one's to get. Why?
>>
>
>The Rev 1 MOBOs were configured with an IDE controller that was not
>capable of reliably driving a master-slave hard drive combo.
>
>That is, not allowing you to reliably add a second internal hard drive,
>as a slave, to the MOBO string.
>
>The Rev 2 changed the MOBO IDE controller to support this option
>
>I have a Rev 1, but I solved this "problem" by installing a separate
> PCI IDE controller
>
>Go to http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/newfeatures.html
>
>
>Albert
>B&W Yosemite V1 // XLR8 G4 500/ 1MB ZIF // 1024MB RAM
>PCI Radeon 7000 Video Card
>PCI ATA 126 Video Card
>PCI SIGII Ultra 133/100 IDE Controller/Pair of IBM 60GXP 40GB hard
>drives
>PCI Adaptec 4300 PCI- FW controlller :
> FW LacCie 48x24x48 Burner
> FW OWC Oxford 911 / IBM 40GB GXP HD
>Epson USB 1260 Photo Scanner
>OS X.2.3
>Safari Browser
In addition Albert's good advice, I would add the FireWire of rev.1
is fragile and many have had their Mac's B&W G3 rev.1 FireWire say
good bye. Both Albert and I have put in Adaptec 4300 PCI FireWire
boards to get reliable FireWire in our G3s. Your best bet is rev.2.
Good luck.
Eric
B&W Yosemite V1 // G3 400/ 1MB ZIF // 1024MB RAM
PCI ATA 128 Video Card
PCI Sonnet Tempo-2- IBM 40GB GXP HD drives
PCI Adaptec 4300 PCI- FW controlller :
FW Que! Fire 12x10x32 CDRW Burner
FW Sonnet Tempo-card ATA 66
Canon USB N1220U Photo Scanner
OS X.2.4
Safari Browser
IE 5.2
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