Hi, On 01-Jun-2003 Robert M. Reed wrote: > I have a revision 1 blue and white G3 with a 6gb ATA hard drive. I've > heard things about problems with drive corruption with large ATA hard > drives. I'd like a bigger hard drive, but I'm worried about the > corruption. So I've got some questions and I hope someone knows > something. > Is drive corruption still a problem with rev 1 B&W G3's under OSX? > How big an ATA hd before there gets to be a drive corruption problem? > Is the problem specific to particular brands of hd's?
friend of mine has a Rev 1 B&W G3 and upgraded the one HD to a 40GB IBM drive a while back. There *were* problems and the little test utility (see xlr8yourmac, G3 section) finds read problems. From the log-output I would conclude: The IDE controller chip is buggy in reads, not writes (once written the read errors move around and never repeat at the same location). The error rate is something like 2 read errors (16-bit word?) per 2GB read. This was under os9.2, but as the IDE controller is the problem and not the software side driver I do not think OSX will help a lot. > I've got a SCSI card in it, but the price per gb of SCSI hard drives > is ridiculous compared to ATA hard drives. With two video cards and > a scsi card I'm down to my last PCI slot and I don't want to use it > up with an ATA card. There might be a possibility to reduce the ATA interface from UDMA to Multiword-dma which seems to cure the data corruption (see xlr8yourmac again). I don't know a tool to switch DMA settings on the Mac (I count myself into i386/Linux). My friend will go for a ATA card -- in a few days I could tell the results (remind me in a few days). K.-H. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
