Power Mac G3 Blue and White hard drive cables?

[xtempo]

occasionally I get there is no OS error when starting the PMC. I have both OS 9 and Tiger on it so it happens to both. Is the Hard Drive going bad or the cables? I don't have any spares of anything to actually check but what's the most common reason?

 

[eyoungren]

My understanding is the the G3 is tempermental. I've not experienced that with my own G3, but I only run one OS and it's usually just running in the background 24/7.

The cables are standard IDE cables. You could take one out of an old PC and it would work in the G3.

 

[xtempo]

Ok then if I ever get some more cables ( i use to have a bunch) I try it but now it seems to be working.

why is it more temperamental than the others? G or no G series.

 

[eyoungren]

why is it more temperamental than the others? G or no G series.

@LightBulbFun, maybe you can explain…?

 

[LightBulbFun]

@LightBulbFun, maybe you can explain…?

it generally depends on if you have a Rev A G3 BW or a Rev B G3 BW

the Rev A's are known for being generally quite temperamental and their main ATA controller has known bugs/issues

I think the Rev B's are much more robust, but I have no personal experience with them sadly

(unfortunately all my G3 BW's happen to be Rev A's LOL)

 

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It looks like I have A or at least it shows A by the numbers under the copyright. I wish I kept my first B&W I think that may have been a B since I sorta remember there were less or non existent problems with it

 

[BronzeLight]

I haven't had any big issues with my Rev A yet but I decided to go for a sata PCI card and flash it in hopes of avoiding ATA trouble in OSX. Apparently you can't run OS9 on most PCI cards because of 4mb chip limitations if I remember correctly. The flashing has appeared to work but I haven't spent a afternoon installing 10.4 so I don't have personal experience on how good/bad it is yet. Here is the resources I used:

Guide to flashing PC SIL3112 SATA cards for Mac

To begin with, hello - I'm new to this board, although I've been a member of the 68kMLA forums for a while. I'm also a long time user of PowerPC Macs. I recently flashed a PC SATA card to use in my PMG4, which I am currently in the process of fully upgrading. I put this guide together for...

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