Well I never considered adding another HDD in the space where the ZIP
Drive is
Isn't there also room on the B&W G3 Rev.b 'case floor' for more
drives beneath the optical drives?
Right now I have an 80Gb IDE drive running off the stock controller
and a 250 GB SATA running off a Sonnet PCI card - would like to
install another SATA drive on that Sonnet controller and maybe add
another controller for a total of 4 - or more - internal drives
On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:10 PM, PeterH5322 wrote:
Can I put the original CD drive in the ZIP drive bay? I don't use
the ZIP drive and probably never will
Two optical drives ... why?!?
I've found that replacing the original optical drive with a Pioneer
DVR-109 or 110 (both are supported, or are supportable in 10.3 and
10.4,
and both certainly work fine with 9.2.1) was the way to go.
The space where the zip formerly was is now either a 300 GB or a
400 GB
drive, depending upon which B&W.
The two-high drive carrier in the base (these are "Dash 2" B&Ws) has
either a pair of 60 GB Apple-branded ATA drives or a pair of third-
party
120 GB ATA drives, with 10.3/9.2.1 on one and 10.4/9.2.1 on the other.
The 300 GB and 400 GB drives were initialized on a Beige G3 using
Intech's initializer, with 128 GB as the first partition and all
remaining space as the second partition.
9.2.1 fully recognizes both partitions on the Beige and the Blue &
White
machines. I have found NO compatibility problems with Intech's driver,
either on 9 or on X; either with <=128 GB drives, or with >>129 GB
hard
drives.
On X, Intech's "high capacity driver" is installed, and this allows
10.3
and 10.4 to use all available space, just as it was available, and is
still available, on 9.2.1.
(Intech's three page attachment goes into excruciating details on
how to
achieve complete MacOS 9/X forward and backward compatibility with
<=128
GB and >>128 GB drives. This software came "bundled" with a hard drive
purchased from OWC. It is the "OEM" version of Intech's product, to
which
I have applied all downloadable updates. "Five Mice" for Intech).
The B&W's "multiword" bus is quite happy with the HUGE hard drives,
and
that bus comes standard with an 80-wire/40-pin cable, which fast
optical
drives, such as the dual-layer opticals I mentioned, above, need
for full
performance.
These B&Ws are used mainly for DVD authoring and duplicating (public
domain and/or "fair use" only, of course) and since the DVR-110 was
updated with "cross-flashed" firmware from a hacker's site, said
firmware
mainly providing more complete media compatibility, as well as full
speed
ripping and burning, I haven't burned a "coaster", even on el-cheapo
media, although I tend to use archival media for my own library.
Oh, both the optical and the magnetic drives are not retained by
screws
as this makes drive changes easier.
If you apply a strip of heavy duty "filament" packing tape, 1" wide
and
the length of the Zip drive cavity, said tape covering and
insulating the
"bump" on the floor of the cavity, then the Zip cavity will
accommodate a
HUGE hard drive with ease.
The B&W media carrier, which is removable by two screws from the
front,
after the dual bezel has been removed, easily accommodates the two
drives
as I described.
In order to change drives, for any reason, all that is required is to
remove the bezel, remove the two screws, slide the carrier out a
couple
of inches, reach in and disconnect the data and power cables, slip out
the drives (no drive retaining screws, remember), slip in the new
drives,
and reassemble in reverse.
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