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... and after about a solid day of working great, suddenly and for no reason, I am unable to mount any optical discs in my optical drive again. This is very strange. 

922-4027 <- that's the part number for a G3 iMac optical board adapter. At least one specific G3 iMac model. Not easy to find though, you'd be better off finding a junked G3 iMac and taking it apart. Of course, then you'll get stuck with the CRT. 

I don't think that one would work. It looks like the optical drive is too close to the top, and the disk would hit the bezel of a beige Mac's CD bay cover. But, at least I know these parts are out there. Doing this mod is at the bottom of my to do list, but it would be a cool thing to do for sure.

Is this a thing? I know it's a thing with hard drives. Both the physical adapter to fit a 2.5" drive in a 3.5" bay, and also the adapter to convert laptop IDE to desktop IDE. But optical drives are much less standard than hard drives. But it would be very cool if you could get a physical adapter...

How do you get OS X to install on a PCI Mac with 64 MB of RAM? Do you install with more then pull some out? XPostFacto isn't letting me install ANYTHING without at least 96 MB of RAM. 

Anyone know of an app like Activity Monitor, but for classic MacOS? Something that can at least show me CPU usage of all running apps, and Ideally show me disk activity and even network activity?

Ok after getting the CD drive to work with no IDE drives (only SCSI), I then went back to my initial setup, IDE optical and IDE hard drive, both masters on a 1 drive IDE bus. And now it seems to be working perfectly. I can't explain it, but I'm just happy it's working properly. Hopefully it...

So based on this, I tried just the optical drive hooked up to the IDE card with no hard drives, and it immediately mounted the CD. I'm going to keep fiddling with it, hopefully I can come up with a way to get a hard drive and a CD drive to work. At least I'm making progress though.

What brand is the DVDI  What brand is the DVD ROM drive? Is it an Apple OEM drive? What jumper/cable position/bus setup to you use it in?

I hate to be "that guy" that bumps, but.... *bump* Let me ask a different question. Does anyone have any experience at all, successful or unsuccessful, using an IDE optical drive with a classic SCSI based Mac, via a PCI IDE card? 

I'm pretty sure the position on the IDE cable doesn't matter if it's just one Master drive on the bus. However they were both on the end anyway. I can try a master/slave setup just to see, but due to the drive placement in this machine, I'm not sure I'll be able to do two drives on one IDE...

So I picked up this card on eBay for $20. PCI IDE seems to be very hard to find, so I wanted to snatch it up even though it's ATA66. I hope it doesn't have the 120 GB drive limit, but if it does I'll live with it.  So I plugged the card in (to my PowerMac 7300). I hooked up a 40 GB IDE drive...

It was. But you inspired me to keep haggling and I bought it for $20 shipped. That's pretty reasonable. I'd rather a tempo trio with firewire and USB too but who knows how long until one of those pops up. 

It's weird that sonnets on spec PDF for this card doesn't mention it. I assume that means they did what you mentioned, and implemented it in a way where there was no limit. But it's all moot now anyway, the ebay seller wants too much money for the card, so I'll keep waiting for a better deal. 

I found a Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA66 on ebay. Not the 133 or sata card I really want, but realistically it should be fine. I found a spec sheet on the card, on Sonnet's website. But I couldn't find any mention anywhere about max drive capacity.  I know with IDE, there was a limit for a long time...

I believe I had a G3 CPU upgrades way back in the day, that came with just a flat piece of aluminum as the heat sink, no fins. But it seemed to work, it had a pretty good surface area and it was only a G3, I think 500Mhz. But yours is definitely missing the heat sink. I suspect that that chip...

I'm curious about the bays on this thing. Is that a real hard drive bay above the power supply? And what about the four "External" bays, are they all 5.25" bays with metal tray adapters to turn them into 3.5" bays?

How does posting stuffit in a .sit.bin solve the catch 22 problem? Don't you need expander to decompress a .hqx and a .bin? 

I'm making a classic mac software archive (see signature) and so far, I've just been reposting files as I get them. Meaning if they are .sit.bin, i post them as .sit.bin. If they are .sea.hqx, I post them as such.  But it occurred to me that there is likely a "best" way to post files, but what...