B&W G3 drive problems

mamonbbux yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Sep 15 06:12:01 2003


Michael George a écrit :
> 
> Where do I find an indication which revision board I have.

on this page:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/newfeatures.html
>  The revised CMD646 IDE controller chip can be identified by the "402" marking next to the part number.
>  The IDE controller chip is near the rear of the PCI Slots as shown below:
(see the url for the "shown below", with this image no problem to find 
your G3's controller chip)

you may have a sight also at this page:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/IDE/
> Data corruption can occur with any drive (master or slave) with the rev 1's IDE chip. (The Rev 2 Blue and White G3 has a revised chip as shown on our "Rev 2 features" page. If you have a rev 1 B&W G3, the safest thing is to buy a PCI IDE controller card when considering adding/replacing the original drive with a modern, larger model...etc.

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