B&W G3 drive problems

[sloopy malibu]

On 9/18/03 11:47, "Clinton MacDonald" <clint.macdonald@sbcglobal.net> wrote=
:

> Sloopy:
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> On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 10:25  AM, sloopy malibu wrote:
>> I have been busy the last couple days but I have a B&W G3 (originally a
>> 400Mhz and came with the two connector cable and dual drive sled) and I
>> bought a 120Gig WD drive and had pretty much the same problems with
>> it...
>> Even tho I HAD Two maxtor drives (20 & 40gig) in it before I bought the
>> 120Gig drive... It would give me problems even with it as the only
>> drive on
>> the channel... I have since put the drive in my 9600 and given up on
>> using
>> it in my B&W G3...
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> Apropos of this, Terra Soft has today released Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1:
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> <http://yellowdoglinux.com/>
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> "Announcement: 17 September 2003
> Yellow Dog Linux v3.0.1 ships with all errata as of 9/4/03, kernel
> 2.4.22 (Xserve rev2, PowerBook 17" rev1 sans fan support), and improved
> installer (*NO MORE DUAL DRIVE BUG!*). Available now from the Terra
> Soft Store and YDL.net Enhanced accounts." (Emphasis mine.)
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> I assume it will be available to the rest of us via yum update in a few
> weeks.
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> Best wishes,
> Clint

Yeah I know about this... But on my machine the 120gig wouldn=B9t work
properly in YDL or Mac OS X, when it was the only HD in the machine...


sloopy.