> I have a PowerBase 180 upgraded with an old G3/233 PowerLogix board. I am > trying to upgrade the hard drive and I'm wondering if anyone can give me > some information. > > It appears that all of the connections are SCSI as all the devices currently > in the machine are SCSI devices. I just don't knwo what kind (the number of > pins, fast or wide, etc.). Does anyone know? > > I'd like to put an 80GB drive in there and use it as a back up server. I'd > appreciate any suggestions of where to find inexpensive drives. > > Thanks and happy new year! > > -Spencer Spencer,
I have a PB 240 with a G3 accelerator that I have just replaced with a new Power PC G4. In the PB, I was able to add a 30 Gig Maxtor IDE drive by purchasing a VST UltraTek/66 PCI card. This ATA/66 card is much faster than the built-in IDE connection and you can connect any modern IDE drive to it. I believe you can purchase UltraTek/100 (or better, and surely lots of other PCI) cards new or if you are interested I can sell you mine for $20 plus shipping. (I'm keeping the Maxtor drive.). The card comes with 2 IDE cables so you can connect a 2nd internal device as well--for example, I also connected a fast CD-RW drive. I think you actually can connect 4 devices to the card. One last thing about the VST card--it has built-in firmware that allows the connected IDE devices to masquerade as SCSI; so your computer will behave as though the devices are SCSI, not IDE, and all the abundant SCSI software (like RAID) will work with it. Bud Simrin -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
