daniel_chapstick
Member
Hello,
I had some issues connecting SCSI and IDE hard drives on my Powermac G3 Beige Desktop and wanted to get some feedback on possible solutions/causes.
My G3 contains an internal/external SCSI port and 2 different IDE ports. There is an IDE CD drive connected. Any time I try connecting a separate IDE hard drive, either on the same IDE bus or via the second IDE port, the Mac (booting off System 8 CD) will not recognize the hard drive. Whenever I connect an internal SCSI hard drive, the Mac will also not recognize the drive. The mac boots successfully off my external BlueSCSI.
It looks like previous posts here all point to the IDE buses on the G3s being very faulty. Are there are any fixes to this beyond relying on the external SCSI connection or using a PCI SCSI/PATA/SATA card?
I had some issues connecting SCSI and IDE hard drives on my Powermac G3 Beige Desktop and wanted to get some feedback on possible solutions/causes.
My G3 contains an internal/external SCSI port and 2 different IDE ports. There is an IDE CD drive connected. Any time I try connecting a separate IDE hard drive, either on the same IDE bus or via the second IDE port, the Mac (booting off System 8 CD) will not recognize the hard drive. Whenever I connect an internal SCSI hard drive, the Mac will also not recognize the drive. The mac boots successfully off my external BlueSCSI.
It looks like previous posts here all point to the IDE buses on the G3s being very faulty. Are there are any fixes to this beyond relying on the external SCSI connection or using a PCI SCSI/PATA/SATA card?