6500 install hell

[Nathan A. McQuillen]

Hmm... tell that to the two fat ATA drives running as master & slave on my
beige box... ;) ... Ah, I see the venerable Mr. Seufert has already set us
straight on that count. Excellent as always, sir.

BTW, added another 32MB stick to the 6500 (surprise! there /was/ still RAM
in that old PowerCenter!) and it is happily running from the 4GB. I
have not tried reinstalling, but I discovered that the last few
reinstallation attempts had not even gotten far enough to reformat
the drive, so it's bootable, but unfinished (no /etc/sysconfig, for
one thing).

Sadly, I just arranged to sell the machine, but I am *certain* that
another will fall into my lap by and by, and in the meantime, the revenues
from this sale will allow me to put a HD in the G3 Mainstreet I was given
this morning...  :) From preliminary glances, that machine looks similar
to the beige G3, so if all goes well I won't have to bug you gentlefolk
again (at least until I have to run X).

Thanks again.

- Nathan


On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Michael Tucker wrote:

>
> FYI - The G3/233 Minitowere did not have the full ATA support. No slave
> drives on that controller.
>
> Mike
>
> > Oh, and (off topic) in re. the issue of when Apple began offering good IDE
> > support: I know the beige G3/300 I've got has what seems like full ATA
> > functionality (master/slave, admirable speed, autotune delivers improved
> > performance) so it must have been before that revision that Apple shaped
> > up.