On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 08:11 PM, Wade Tinney wrote:
Note this though: I don't think you can format an IDE drive with the version of Drive Setup that comes with 9.0. I seem to remember that I had to use the one that came with 9.1
By the time 9.0 had come around, Mac had shipped with IDE drives exclusively for years. You shouldn't have had to use a different version of Drive Setup. I know I've used the drive setup that came with 8.6 to format large IDE drives. Apple was shipping systems with IDE drives in the mid-System 7 era.
And that was a smoking deal on that maxtor :-0
And for the record, I'm fully aware that Beige G3's have SCSI as well as IDE connectors.
To my mind, however, there is absolutely ZERO reason to invest in a SCSI drive over an IDE for this purpose.
The internal SCSI is not faster than the IDE, it's vastly more complicated to set up, and much larger drives are available for IDE than SCSI, at much lower prices.
You can not buy SCSI drives cheaper than IDE drives, period.
I can think of no reason whatsoever to recommend a SCSI HDD for someone in this person's position. At all.
(The only remotely possible reason would be so you could install OSX on a drive > 8 gb.
Big whoop.
The largest commonly available SCSI drives would be what...36GB, and you're going to pay a pretty penny for those *AND* be messing about with jumpers, termination and the media changers because you're sure as heck not finding no 50-pin 36gb drives. Much simpler to simply partition a big IDE drive and store your documents there.
Also for the record, I"m fully aware that larger SCSI drives than 36GB exists, and are indeed commonly available (since we just bought 10 of them) , but they're ghastly expensive and utterly unsuited for the purpose here.
If you're so inclined it's a simple matter to move your Users directory to another partition or drive, even thus removing the biggest part of space-usage on the system drive. It ought to be as simple to move the Applications folder, reserving the 8 gb for the system only, more than enough room!)
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