jenniferleighr Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 I have a blue and white G3. It has a hard drive that is 9 gig ( I think it is SCSI) It is Quantum Vicking PHXWS 656-0638. I want to get rid of the main 9 gig hard drive. I have the operating system disk of 10.3. I would like to install IDE hard drive. I have 20 to 60 gig drives. My question is can I install IDE as the main drive and get total rid of the 9 gig? How do I do it. Other spec on the machine are listed -CMD 646u2-402 (ka62) - Apple Computer Inc 1999 -820-1049-a is on the motherboard - Power Mac G3 Series - CPU Type – Power PC 750 (82.2) - Number of cpu is one - 12 Cashe per cpu - Memory is ram 768 MB - Bus Speed 100 MHZ - Boot Rom verision 1.1.1f4 Thanks Jennifer Ross jlross@execulink.com Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118680-g3-replacing-9-gig-drive-with-ide/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 The Blue and White G3's are stupidly easy to replace anything. Just open the case (easy) and replace the drive. Those G3's are ATA drives. I might suggest getting Mactracker as a software option for identifying how to upgrade your Mac. If you want a pure internet solution, then try Other World Computing (I've already set it up to show the G3 models if the link works properly). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118680-g3-replacing-9-gig-drive-with-ide/#findComment-841856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 That link doesn't work properly, but I went through and here is the only hard drive that it came up with: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD800JB/ Its a 7200RPM WDC 80GB drive for $45. I don't think that's a very good deal considering I can get a 500GB Western Digital Caviar with 16MB cache/7200RPM/SATAII 3Gbps for less than $100 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118680-g3-replacing-9-gig-drive-with-ide/#findComment-841869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac SK Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 The B&W has an IDE drive, if you install a larger drive the OS needs to be on a partition, like ten Gigs. Or you will have problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118680-g3-replacing-9-gig-drive-with-ide/#findComment-843067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeriJane Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 Hi Jennifer. A little research indicates something odd. A Quantum Viking 9.1g drive appears to be a SCSI drive, as you suspect. The Blue&White G3 supported IDE (aka ATA 33) drives. Unfortunately, the early Revision 1 units had IDE controller problems that prevented use of newer drives such as ATA66, ATA100, ATA133. A lot of the G3s had Ultra ATA, SCSI or SATA controllers installed to correct this. Could this G3 have had a SCSI card and the Quantum added at some point in its history? This was a common refit for Revision 1 G3s. the IDE controller should still be useable, and the largest supported IDE drive should be 137gb. For all practical purposes this limits you to a 120gb hard drive. But you have to set the drive to disable UDMA if your G3 is a Revision 1. If you do have a SCSI card installed, you would probably be limited to a 120gb SCSI drive. Or you could replace it with an Ultra ATA card or even a SATA controller card. Probably still a 120gb limit though. Possibly not. I don't know what exactly limits the Drive size. If it's only the drive controller, you may be able to use larger drives. Here's a neat article with pictures that I came across: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macinto...ue_&_White) Good Luck and Have Fun! Keri Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118680-g3-replacing-9-gig-drive-with-ide/#findComment-843495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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