YDL with a WD 120GB and B/W G3

[Rick Thomas]

(cheapest) Install an Apple bootstrap partition on the MacOS drive.

(a bit more expensive) Get a Mac-compatible PCI UltraATA card, that
MacOS9 *will* recognize.  They're rare, but they do exist.  CDW sells
one.  I have it installed in a beige G3 -- works great.
	http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=379460

Rick



"Henry A. Leinhos" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a rev1 B/W G3 desktop running at 300 MHz, and have been trying
> to install YDL 3.0 on a Western Digital 120GB drive (WD1200JB Caviar
> Special Ed), with mixed results. If I connect the drive (with an
> 80-conductor EIDE cable) to the apple IDE connector, MacOS (9.2) can see
> the drive, but can't always initialize it, and I get read errors when
> copying data to/from the drive.  If I try to run the YDL3.0 Installer, I
>   get errors partitioning/formatting the drive.  Now, if I connect the
> drive to an UltraATA-66 PCI card (which MacOS doesn't recognize), I can
> install YDL3.0 with out problem (it sees the WD drive as hde).  For now,
> I can boot using the install CD (ofpath returns an error for /dev/hde,
> so I can't boot directly  via ybin/yaboot at the moment), and the drive
> works flawlessly (as far as I can tell).
> 
> My question is, has anyone else had any experience with a WD120 or
> better on similar hardware, and is there anyway to boot directly to this
> drive using the PCI card (or do I install an Apple Bootstrap partition
> somewhere on the MacOS drive)?