PowerMac G3 question(s)

[Rick Thomas]

We are talking about Blue&White G3 machines, right?  Are yours Rev 
A or Rev B (or was it Rev 1, Rev 2) motherboards?  There were some 
fixes to the IDE controller logic between revs.

Thanks,

Rick


On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 05:45 PM, Heath Henderson wrote:

> We are running YDL3 on the old beasts.  They just got a little ram
> upgrade to 256.  Some of them are running servers some are just
> workstations.  They handle very well for all applications.  We have had
> some trouble with Hard Drive formatting, but we zap the pram and on we
> go.  Not sure what that was caused by, but the installation would bomb
> out as it set to format the Hard drive.
>
>
>>>> zsche004 at mrs.umn.edu 9/23/2004 4:05:08 PM >>>
> Hi everybody,
>
> My university is preparing to sell some Yosemite G3
> Macs and before I dish out some precious clams - I'm a
> poor college student ;) - I have have a few questions.
>
> A) I understand Yosemite's are supported by YDL3, is
> there any special tweaking for it, or should I expect
> some installation and operation (mainly X windows)
> problems?  I just want it to run apps and to do some
> c++ coding.
>
> I understand that it uses OpenFirmware, so I'm over
> that hurdle.
>
> B) Will YDL4 support it also?  And if there are things
> that don't work in YDL 3, will they work in YDL 4?
>
> I can get a nice big monitor with it, so it with linux
> on it will make a nice addition to my new iBook G4.
>