Biege G3 and HDD's

WeeZer51402

WeeZer51402

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i have a biege g3 and i was considering adding a hard drive since a i have a 15 gig just lying around, i seem to bee missing the mounts in the upper expansion bay next to the floppy dirve, can i just let the drive sit there, i dont kn ow if thats the best idea well if anyone knows where to get the mounts please tell me.
thanks,
mike
 
The drive in that slot would fit to a plastic 'sled' that mounts on the drive bottom. Lacking that, the drive could just sit loose hooked to the cables. Best idea? No, but it won't really move very far, and probably won't hurt anything. You could lay a couple strips of double-sided tape (the thick kind) down in the slot, and press the drive on the tape, won't move, but you can pull it up if you had to.
 
All G3's had the sled in that slot, just nothing mounted to it. You would need to find screws for it, but the sled was always there.

I have several older Macs. If you want, I can look and see if I have the sled and screws and could send them to you.

mikey
 
hmmm, that would be awesome if you could but let me just look through all the stuff that came with it maybe its there? if not are there any other macs that use that sled i may have something that is compatible now but ill have too look. I might just be better off replacing the first drive with this 15GB drive though....
-mike
 
You can install two ATA/IDE devices on the same ATA/IDE channel in a master/slave configuration on these computers:
Power Mac G4
Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) (limited to certain configurations)
Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one

Any other machines would need a ATA PCI Card to support the second drive.
 
ok i set the HDD to master and the cdrom to slave and it works just fine except it wont boot off the second HDD but i dont care i only want it for storage.
-mike
 
hmmm....I'm thinking of just putting my 4 gig somewhere else now, only one problem i cant boot the 15 gig drive :-( i used CarbonCopyCloner to clone the old drive and it wouldnt boot i also tried blessing the system folder through the command line...what now?
-mike
 
You haven't mentioned what OS you are trying...
If OS 9, no reason not to work...
If you want to boot from the 15 GB HD using OS X, then that HD must be partitioned into minimum of 2 partitions, with the first being smaller than 8 GB, and you must install OS X to that first partition.

Note to bobw: You forgot to read the rest of the article for early support of master/slave. Rev 2 and later beige G3 logic boards also support master/slave on the same bus, read HERE , also HERE to identify those beauties properly
 
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