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The Beige has the floppy removed and sports 4 HD's and a CD combo drive. Can
I put 4 HD's and the CD in a B&W? If not in stock mode, can I use the rear
HD sled for a Beige, or, is there a dual sled available for the B&W?
Pros:
The B&W's have two IDE controllers in them (ATA 33). So, you could have
four IDE hard drives in it, but you would loose the Zip (it it's still
in there) and the optical drive.
Cons:
If the drives are SCSI, the above doesn't count. :-) Depending on the
rev of the mainboard, the system does have a pair of dual drive sleds
along the bottom of the case. If the system is a rev 1, then it is
/highly/ reccomended that you get a 3rd party IDE controller card and
not use the built-on IDE controllers for more than one drive per chain.
Rev 1 IDE controllers had a problem figuring out which drive to write
to with a dual drive on a controller configuration.
So, if this is a rev 2 B&W and the stock drive sleds are still there,
these is room for four drives If the sleds are gone, you will have to
get new ones as the rest of the case was not designed to hold 3.5 form
factor drives. However, You could put one in the spot where the zip
drive would normally sit, or get some adapters and put one in the
optical drive bay. As with all things, there is a way to do it.
Of course, you have to consider the power requirements as well,
especially on power up. I believe someone else voice some concern on
this as well.
Also, I'm currently using an Atto OEM Ultra-wide SCSI card that Apple sold
with this machine. Somehow it's crippled, per an Apple technical doc, and
will only support 2 internal drives and no external drives (though the card
that Atto sold direct could address 16 devices whether they were external or
internal).
Wild, custom firmware, gotta love/hate it.
As for the drives and card, that I don't know. IIRC, Apple did offer
the B&W's with a SCSI card, but I don't think it was an ultra wide, just
an ultra. I would do some searching on ebay. SCSI cards are
realitivily cheap, it's the drives that are expensive. :-P
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