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I have an iMac12,2 with a 4TB drive and 13 versions of Intel MacOS from 10.6 to Ventura. OCLP rules!

I have two classic MacPro3,1s... and I have some old SAS drives laying around. I thought it would be a fun experiment to try to get a SAS controller put in to use the drives. Non-Apple of course, because of the horrible reviews on it. I found an Areca ARC-1222 on eBay, and got it delivered...

Here is a link to the disk I was talking about.

Do you have any other G4 machines with FireWire that you could boot in Target Disk Mode, or external Firewire Drive you could boot from? Early CD-Rom versions of Apple Toolkit used to have TechTool Pro on them. White disk with a stripe of red.

I have been messing around with bus speeds, and overclocking the G3, and attempting to resurrect the G4 ZIF, so who knows what really is the answer.... These tests were on a stock rev1 motherboard 350MHz G3, bus at 66, multiplier 5.5, so 366MHz. I should put the bus back to 100MHz default and...

Just found this thread claiming all JMicron 20330 are trash. Having no luck with mine on the B&W G3. Yes, I can boot from a mechanical drive, format and copy to SSD, but it won't boot. I will have to see what other adapters I have that are not JMicron 20330 based. This thread claims you cannot...

Fresh on eBay, 2nd mortgage anyone?

Well, if you google long enough, you can find the answers. Maybe not the answer you were looking for, but a better answer than you have right now. I managed to find this page that talks about the B&W bus speed settings. So I was able to lower the standard 100MHz to 66MHz and did some...

I got it to boot, originally thought it was IDE bus, but it was a bad ram. I cannot get the G4 to boot, but I had a spare G3-350MHz ZIF, so that boots fine at 350 and 400. I checked for the G4 enabler (OWC/NewerTech), and it is active. No variation of jumpers on CPU speed will boot the G4. I...

I just grabbed another B&W so I will try some SSD options this weekend.

I stopped by Free Geek Minneapolis yesterday. A lonely B&W "no chime, no boot, $10 as-is". I had to take it home. The data plate on the back shows it is a 450MHz, so not likely a gen1 motherboard. I cracked it open this morning before heading off to work to see what lays in store... Two...

Maybe too much info: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26812/ide-ssd-pulling-down-data-bus https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=96383 Partition size limit, but you said your SSD is 64GB. Try partitioning it into two 32GB or a 4GB and 60GB and see if the 4GB boots after copying.

It may be that the B&W is a special kind of problem child. I just popped mine open and I have the original HD and a SCSI drive in it... the SSD I was toying with is not there, so I must have not got it working in the B&W either. Looking forward to the challenge in January! I know I used some...

I will pull all of mine out and check the versions probably next January for the PPC Challenge. I do have one connected to my AppleTV Gen 1. Works fine. Seems to be the same JM20330 chip that yours uses. Here is one more attempt to try: Remove the optical drive from the chain... and only...

Try the SSD back under the optical and see if it boots there? I have seen some really weird behavior with sata/ide adapters. Some of it may be bus speed related. I think the bus is 33MHz and maybe your adapter can't run that slow? You may have to look at flashing one of those SATA Raid cards...

After you power up, hold down the left shift key and do not release it until the desktop is loaded. That should be safe mode with no extensions. If it boots fine that way, then there has to be something corrupt in there or some offending extension. The original HD was a fully functional install?

There are two ATA busses in the B&W G3. If you don't have a ZIP drive under the optical drive, try putting your SSD in there (assuming your adapter has a master/slave jumper). You may have to try a few different options with the 4 pin jumpers (Toshiba for reference, may not apply to your adapter).

Good thing I already backed up the entire Internet onto a thumb drive.

Oops, I did it again. Another stop at Free Geek Minneapolis and I found this 3,1 for $5. Says chimes but no video. Even an empty case on eBay is going for over 50 dollars, so I can't say no. No hard drive, 4 x 1GB 800MHz PC2-6400 FBDIMMS, Nvidia 8800GT 512MB. Removed video card, fans...

Here is my suggestion: Try the internal SSD with the original optical drive disconnected. That is what was holding me back. My optical drive was a little sticky to begin with, so I replaced it with a slimline slot-load SATA drive from an old iMac. Another SATA->IDE adapter for the optical...