Newsgroup: it.comp.macintosh
Titolo: Second IDE HD for Blue/White G3

Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible to install a second ATA (IDE) hard drive
on the new blue and white power Macintosh G3. I am currently out of space on
my computer and I am in need of a second hard drive.  The documents with my
computer says that I can install only one ATA (IDE) hard drive and 3 SCSI
hard drives.  Is that true?  If so, is there a way around it?  The drive in
my computer is a 6GB ATA (IDE) which occupies the one slot I have.  But now
I really need a second hard drive and if possible to keep the drive I
already have with all my files and software.  Is there a way that I could
still add a new hard drive with out replacing my old one?  I would really
appreciate your help in this matter.
Thanks A lot,
Omar
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 on the new blue and white power Macintosh G3.
Yes, it is possible but expect some difficulties: the Yosemite seems to accept
well only hard drives manufactured by Quantum. Every tries to mount a different
brand of HD (on the ULTRA ATA port) is committed to fail. I experienced this
with two different HDs: Samsung and Seagate. Ultra ATA/33 the first, Ultra
ATA/66 the second. Both were 8 Gb sized. Please note that if you try to use
them on the IDE port they works fine! If you want to use a second HD connected
to the Ultra ATA port it MUST be a Quantum  and it MUST be connected after the
first using a special 80-wire IDE cable that provides connector in colors
white, black and blue. The blue end must be connected to the ULTRA ATA port and
the remaining connectors to the 2 Hard Drives: one must be configured as
Master, the other as Slave. Please note that you can do the bootstrap ONLY from
the Master HD. Fitting the hard drive in the tower case is depending only from
the lenght of the special IDE cable. If you decide to not use Quantum drives
you can still use another brand of HD but I suggest to use the empty (?) slot
under the CD/DVD drive. This slot should be used for Zip drive only but it is
possible to fit an HD that can't be fixed because the holes in the case are not
aligned with the holes on the HD. You must can configure it as slave drive but
remember that doing so it will not more possible to boot from it because the
priorities are for the masters only (the Quantum HD and the CD/DVD drive). If
you wish to assign the boot priority to the new HD you must configure the
CD/DVD as slave and the HD as master. A bit tricky, I know, but I still remain
of the idea that the best solution would be an Adaptec 2930 card with a good
internal/external SCSI HD drive: no matter about the brand of it because the
SCSI is a much more tested and reliable standard... ;-) Good luck!
Andrea Dezzani

 
Sure, you can add an hd to your Yosemite. The Ide controller on this
computer support two peripheral in master/slave configurations; 
Remember also that you need a 3 connector IDE cable (better if this
support ultra dma, you can recognize it becasue the cable has 80 wire
instead of 40 of the normal ide cable).
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