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 retest all the boards, but I am pretty sure I will get the same results. Three of the four devices make the conversion at the motherboard, rather than on the cable bus. The 4th one was my 2.5 IDE to mSata that I used in the AppleTV gen1, did not work in the B&W.
I have basically 4 different SATA/IDE conversions, I found only 1 combination that seems to work reliably in the B&W G3. The red china board.
This must be placed on the cdrom-bus (towards the rear of the case), and you can put the cdrom on the internal drive bus (center of the board edge). Speed comparison with the 3.5 spinner on the internal bus (assumed faster ATA-4) and the Red Board on the CD-ROM bus (Slower ATA-2).
Yellow/Green (puke) board didn't seem to work in any combination on the B&W, but it works in other G4 machines. Something I found on eBay, a Startech dual board.
And another FreeGeek find, this is the first I have tried this device, so not sure if it works elsewhere, but it did NOT work in the B&W.
It was fun to watch all the blinking holiday lights with the door open.
I will pull a working 2 port raid card from my Graphite and see if that works in the B&W this weekend.
I have basically 4 different SATA/IDE conversions, I found only 1 combination that seems to work reliably in the B&W G3. The red china board.
This must be placed on the cdrom-bus (towards the rear of the case), and you can put the cdrom on the internal drive bus (center of the board edge). Speed comparison with the 3.5 spinner on the internal bus (assumed faster ATA-4) and the Red Board on the CD-ROM bus (Slower ATA-2).
Yellow/Green (puke) board didn't seem to work in any combination on the B&W, but it works in other G4 machines. Something I found on eBay, a Startech dual board.
And another FreeGeek find, this is the first I have tried this device, so not sure if it works elsewhere, but it did NOT work in the B&W.
It was fun to watch all the blinking holiday lights with the door open.
I will pull a working 2 port raid card from my Graphite and see if that works in the B&W this weekend.
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