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The G3 has had much work done inside it - or did many years ago - so anything is possible, and I'm not sure the CD ROM is original. That said though it hasn't been used for years, probably 2007, so it may simply be a problem with failing components. Now I have a working Zip drive elsewhere, I...

Yeah, this makes sense. There are a lot of tales 'to there' of good and bad cards. I would generally think (not necessarily correctly) that if a card works in the BlueSCSI in one system, it ought to in another - in other words, that it's the BlueSCSI that is good or bad with a card, not the host...

Yes, it worked perfectly on the 630 both with and without an internal drive - at least with and without the HD. The CD ROM was connected all the time. The G3 has an internal IDE, Zip and CD, I have not looked to see which of these are SCSI! I wasn't much concerned about the PowerBook related...

No, I haven't as yet. It worked with the system I needed it for specifically (the 630CD) so wasn't overly concerned. I presume from the troubleshooting guide that it can't see the card or the card isn't readable - though why the same card works in one system and not another is odd if that were...

Or, actually it might not - that would give me a Lombard-based 9.2.2 system on the CF card. Might be enough though!

Sadly, I don't have a newer Mac, but pulling the drive and hooking it up to something else is a great idea I hadn't even thought of. Which got me thinking that alternatively, I'm going to replace the HD anyway at some point, so I could drop the replacement into another system to get it set up...

No big deal - I'll find out in due course. It's made harder by the fact I can't get any files on or off the G3 at present, so no way to load drivers if it needs it, but there will be a way, if I play with it long enough. Incidentally, is there such a thing as a SCSI 'extender'? Something I can...

Ah, sorry I was not more precise - I meant the Tech by Androda site where I bought it. I'm not sure it was a standard model, but having taken the green 3D printed cover off, it seems to be an 'F4Lite.TbA.DB25M....' I couldn't read the last characters. I'll check out the GitHub link and read...

Maybe I'm confusing it with my Lombard. I plugged a USB card in the PC Card slot and it didn't recognize it at all in OS 9.1 - after downloading extensions from the Garden and dropping them in the system folder, it worked. I read somewhere that when Mac OS 9 installs, it only drops the drivers...

I've got a PCI USB card on the way - it claims to be Mac compatible. I will likely have no easy way to get the drivers onto the system though, since it has no floppy drive, a not really working CD, and though the Zip is good, I don't have a Zip drive for any other system. USB would be my data...

This is odd, I think. The green LED should not normally light, except to flash every second when the 5300 is in sleep. I don't think it has any other function on this system - normally. I may have misunderstood what you're describing, but it sounds like the Green Light of Death if it's coming...

I have a DB25 v1 - I don't know the exact product because it's no longer on the site to look it up, but it predates the v2. Anyway, it works perfectly with my Performa 630CD, including allowing me to install Mac OS 7.1 on a card in it that was created by Disk Jockey. The 630 has even been...

I can't remember how it was that I burned the CD-R which the G3 reads perfectly - it's an Office 98 installer, so I likely made it when setting up my G3 snowbook, so I may even have burned that on my 2016 iMac, using Toast 9 and a superdrive. I'll keep trying, but the idea to burn at lowest...

That's an interesting idea, and well worth a try!

That's good to know - for some reason I'd forgotten the IDE restriction. Time to make a plan rather that just ad hoc fixes!

A secondary question.... I recently switched out a dead CD drive in my G4 iMac for a Pioneer burner. Is there a suitable drive I could get for the G3 which is compatible, allowing for Mac OS 9, and the mounts, etc.? I kind of assume that an early Pioneer model would maybe work since those seem...

Thought I'd best move my troubleshooting to this area rather than Finds/Conquests - it's not feeling quite like a conquest at the moment! Aside from it missing the floppy drive entirely, I've been trying to perform a clean install of MacOS 9.2.2. I downloaded the iso from the Garden on a G4...

This is absolutely great, thanks!!! Pretty sure I can find one of these drives, though I have no 3D printer or access to one to make the carrier. even so, that's a perfect place to start, so thanks again!

I opened the G3 up, and found why it still has its HD... the recycler removed the floppy drive instead, presumably thinking it was the hard drive, maybe not having much time to delve down any further. It does create a bit of a problem because I actually do need a floppy, but otherwise even...

I sent three boards: a Classic LB, and Classic II analog and LB for repair last year after both systems failed to boot with a variety of symptoms. The boards came back in days, and the two systems have been in fine working condition since. Highly recommended for excellent service, high quality...