ATA Redemption

[slomacuser]

Internal ATA 0: CD-ROM + CD-RW

problem is that both CD Drives do not work together. If CD-RW is set to MASTER, CD-ROM is SLAVE, only CD-RW is working. If both are CABLE SELECT only CD-ROM works ...

Internal ATA 1: HDD

specs:

G3 A/V mini tower - 333 MHz

384 RAM (512 MB stick (only 256 used, do not know why) + 2x 64 MB)

 

[Unknown_K]

What revision ROM? I think the early Beige G3's didn't support secondary drives at all, also B&W rev 1 had corruption issues on secondary drives.

 

[slomacuser]

What revision ROM? I think the early Beige G3's didn't support secondary drives at all, also B&W rev 1 had corruption issues on secondary drives.

yep you were right, it was the ROM thing, just replaced the ROM from 333 motherboard and it works now! thx

the story:

I had two g3 mini tower computers, one 233 working and 333 not working. So I replaced the CPU but didn't bother with ROM, hopefully I didn' trash the old motherboard yet ... anyway anbofy know what about RAM? Is ti broken?

 

[equill]

No. Just unsuitable for the model. All three Beige G3 machines were specified for 384MB total (max.) of RAM with then-current technology, and the desktop version had also a height restriction on the DIMMs. Later SDRAM production accommodated the height restriction and enabled 256MB DIMMs for use in all three versions. However, a 256MB 168-pin PC133 CL3 SDRAM card was then and is now as much as a Beige G3 of any kind can use in a slot, for a current maximum of 768MB.

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