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knemonic
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Hello all,
Have a few questions here. Just got my hands on two g3s blue and whites, with rev 1 boards. I am awhere of the issue with the ide controller on these mboards whre it has data corruption. I am curious what the extent of this data corruption is, that is what actually could happen. The reason i ask is that i have installed panther on the hard drive 3 times now, and i unplug the the power over night. When i come back the next day, the machine starts up with the apple logo, but then gives me a circle with a line through it. Assuming this means the os has been corrupted/damaged. Now i would have to assume this is the end result of the ide controller issue.
The other issue i am having is with cdroms on tha same controller and i am wondering if the controller is causing this too. The apple cdrom works fine, i can boot panther and use the cdrom within the os. I have tried two other brand/models and i cannot boot panther from them at all.
I know purchasing a new ata card (acard and sonnet sell them on newegg for a good price, so it is worth it) will fix the data corruption problem, but does anyone know if it will help the compatibility of the cdroms? I would think it might since it has alot to do with the controller on compatability not the os when booting from a cdrom.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Have a few questions here. Just got my hands on two g3s blue and whites, with rev 1 boards. I am awhere of the issue with the ide controller on these mboards whre it has data corruption. I am curious what the extent of this data corruption is, that is what actually could happen. The reason i ask is that i have installed panther on the hard drive 3 times now, and i unplug the the power over night. When i come back the next day, the machine starts up with the apple logo, but then gives me a circle with a line through it. Assuming this means the os has been corrupted/damaged. Now i would have to assume this is the end result of the ide controller issue.
The other issue i am having is with cdroms on tha same controller and i am wondering if the controller is causing this too. The apple cdrom works fine, i can boot panther and use the cdrom within the os. I have tried two other brand/models and i cannot boot panther from them at all.
I know purchasing a new ata card (acard and sonnet sell them on newegg for a good price, so it is worth it) will fix the data corruption problem, but does anyone know if it will help the compatibility of the cdroms? I would think it might since it has alot to do with the controller on compatability not the os when booting from a cdrom.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks