Harry Myself and a few other studios use seagate barracudas 9 gig nw on the beige 233 scsi It's not the track count that is a problem, It's the 233 processor with pluggins that will slow you down I would try the drive first on it's own I don't know what your needs are If they are greater then follow Klaus's advice Normand Klaus Lotz wrote: > Recently Harry Peat wrote: > > > Hi people > > > > Sorry for the OT post. > > such things are not OT anymore. A while ago a Emagic supporter told me to > use a certain version of Apple HD driver, with a specific audio card, to use > with logic. Otherwise it would not record more than 4 minutes. > So any questions/informations about such an important thing like HDs and > their drivers may be relevant for the group. On the other side, threads > about how fast BeOS runs on a PC seems to be OT for me:-) > > > I am about to take delivery of an IBM Ultrastar U2W > > 9.1GB drive, 68 -> 50pin adaptor, 50-pin ribbon cable and internal > > terminator, all of which I intent to install in the spare 3.5" bay of my > > beige G3/233 desktop. > > not a good idea. The beige G3 has a slow SCSI and it is the same bus like > the outside connector, and that means you may get not more than 16-18 > tracks. If you buy a U2W drive (UW would be enough anyway), get a UW > accelerator card like the Adaptec 2940 or Formac Pro Raid also. > > > I'm a little nervous that my inexperience might hamper my efforts, so I > > would be grateful if anyone who has performed this upgrade could give me > > some hints and tips, eg: how should I set the jumper settings on the drive? > > How does the G3 recognise an unformatted drive and with which software > > should I format it? Any tips about connecting the drive up to the > > motherboard successfully? > > You may use the newest version (or the version that came with your system) > of Apple drive setup or alternatively HDT 3.02 or higher. HDT gives you > maybe 2 more tracks but might make trouble since it is not 100% OS9 > compatible. > > cu klo > ----------------------- > Klaus Lotz > e-mail: klo@... > http://www.musicshop.de > http://www.chrom.de/home/pogatschar > > (Mac9600/G3/250MHz/OS9/PT24Mix/2xOldFarms/2xSCell/Magma/U-DMA-Raid,MiroDC20)