At 04:23 PM 2/06/03 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: >Nope. You don't want a SCSI disk. > >Beige G3's use IDE drives; you can likely walk into the average office >or computer superstore and pick up a smoking deal (with rebates).
I think you meant "can use IDE", because they also have a SCSI bus on the motherboard. On mine (which I got stripped of disks and RAM) I found it could boot from the IDE CDROM, or an external SCSI hard disk, but not an internal IDE hard disk. So I bought an old SCSI 3GB disk (about $20) which is the boot disk, and use an IDE as storage. Occasionally when I boot up the IDE disk is nowhere to be found; usually rebooting brings it back (or PRAM rest using Techtool). Obviously IDE is much cheaper, but I think the Beige G3s were about the first Macs to use IDE, whereas SCSI was tried and true. One of these days I'll try out a bunch of other IDE disks and see if it's a general problem or just bad luck. -- anecdotal evidence, YMMV. -- 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
