Installing ATA Zip drive in G3B+W w/Rev MB

I have already fresh loaded Tiger.4 on my G3B+W. Wanted an ATA Zip drive, but added it later. The OS will not mount it. THis Zip came out of a used PC. Got the DVD/Zip set to Master/Slave. Any advice without reloading Tiger? Do not really want to do it. Please reply to [email protected] with the subject - G3B+W Apple Help. Thank you.

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Thanks for your quick reply! I was wondering if anyone would reply!
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I own a Mac plus and i'd like to connect it to the internet. I had a look at a few web browsers, like MacWWW "Samba" but it isn't great. I'd like to try out MacWeb, but it requires system 7. It appears I need to install system 7 on a hard disk to do so. Problem is, I don't have any SCSI hard disk... and they are quite expensive on ebay. So I was wondering, is it possible to install it on a zip drive? They are quite inexpensive and I already have zip disks at home.
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A Zip drive can be connected to a Macintosh Plus. The following web page has further information about this:
http://www.vintagemacworld.com/pluszip.html
System 7 requires at least 2 MB of RAM. In order to connect a 68000 processor machine to the Internet, you should really have the maximum amount of RAM, though (in this case 4 MB).
An older Internet FAQ could possibly be of interest to you:
http://www.knubbelmac.de/spiegel/mac-internet-faq-2002-12.html
You may also need access to another appropriate approx. 1991-1997 Macintosh computer (with a floppy drive for both 800K and 1.44 MB) to be used as an intermediary for software downloads.
System 7.1 came on 1.44 MB floppy disks, which cannot be used directly on a Macintosh Plus. A full US System 7.0 on 800K floppy disk images contained in a larger self-mounting image (.smi) is available for download from Apple:
http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.0.x/System_7.0.smi.bin
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Cant install xp on S-ATA single drive.

Hey I am building a new machine with a single s-ata hard drive and 3 other ide roms. I am using a 865pe neo2 board. The board has no promise chip so there is only two s-ata conectors. I am using a WD Caviar 80gig with 8mb buffer. I left the jumper on master and pluged it into the s-ata1 port. I have read many s-ata questions on the forum and have tried to change the settings on the bios from legacy to native and also messed with the DDR voltage. I can recognize the hard disk in the bios and it posts succesful. I have the bios set to native, S-ata only, enabled p-ata, both, S-ata first. I can start the install of windows XP pro with service pack1 and it will format and install files but when the system reboots and the xp loggo comes it loads and then goes to a blue screen with a hard disk config error. Please help!
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Hi,I'm going to install a 500gig ata hard drive to go along with my 250gig ata drive.The 250gig is on a 133 controller card that will support 4 drives.My question is:do i format the drive first or can i just clone the 250 to 500 with super duper.

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Hard drives add a bit of heat to the interior of the tower, so a PCI slot fan would probably be a wise investment.
Although the PSU would probably be OK, the other upgrades may not appreciate additional heat without additional cooling.
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Putting files, music, photos, etc. on an external FW drive won't affect performance adversely, and will reduce the heat and power loading of the tower.
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Installed Lion OS 10.7.2 and now Zip Drive 100 will not open

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Up until I upgraded to Lion OS 10.7.2, I was able to use my 100 Zip Drive.
But what were you running before you upgraded? I'd say your problem is that you don't have any Zip Drivers that are compatible with Mac OS X 10.7. If they even exist, you'd find them on the Iomega site. But the last ones they have are for 10.3 and 10.4, so that doesn't bode well for any support.
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Beige G3 MiniTower 400mhz Mac OS 9.2.x

I have a Beige g3 MiniTower 400mhz running 9.2.2 with
built in Apple CD and Zip Drive. Overnight, the
machine no longer recongnizes either drive. The
extensions are there, and checked. I upgraded from
9.2.1 to 9.2.2 - no change. I downloaded the latest
Iomega drivers and tools - no change. Any
suggestions as to how I fix this problem - where can
I download the drivers for these drives so I can
replace them? I bought the machine used and do not
have any original OS install disks. Also, if I hook
up an external SCSI Zip drive to the external SCSI
port, the machine hangs and will not boot - any idea
why it would do that? any help you could give would
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Beige G3 MiniTower 400mhz Mac OS
9.2.x
Beige G3
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Where can I find an internal Zip drive for my b&w g3 desktop?
Or should I just get an external USB or 1394 Zip drive?
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250MB ATAPI Zip drive

I have a 250 MB ATAPI Zip drive, is it possible to connect it to my iBook G4 or PowerBook via USB adapter?
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Version:          1.00
Bus Power (mA):          500
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Product ID:          0x2338
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Vendor ID:          0x152d
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Ahoy MSIers,
I am in a most dire situation, and before I go to spend money on some computer-tech guy to solve my problem, I thought maybe you could help me.
*My PC specs:
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood C 2800Mhz
MSI 875P Neo
A-DATA 512Mb RAM DDR 400 * 2(1024)
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Western Digital Hard Drive 80Gb 8Mb buffer P-ATA
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Bios - AMIBIOS - VERSION 3.31a
Windows XP Pro - SP2
Until 2 days ago I owned an MSI CD(P-ATA) burner which was virtually dead.
2 days ago, It died completely, So I decided that I will not just replace a CD burner for a CD burner... no! I will buy myself a new shiny DVD burner!
So I bought myself a Pioneer DVR-212D(S-ATA) and I went on with installing it.
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I booted up, and found that the device was nowhere to be found although power is being transferred to it(the drive opens and closes when pressing it's eject button).
I searched the net and found that I was supposed to "enable" S-ATA in my BIOS.
Tried that, yet every setting I tried besides the default setting gives makes the computer freeze for a few minutes at the MSI logo and then a "friendly" error massage appears, usually it's something like
"4th master drive ATAPI incompatible" ( the number changes, I haven't got a clue why).
Searched the net a bit more and found almost nothing... most s-ata "problems" were about booting from a s-ata hard drive....
I am getting desperate, So in order to maximize the chances of me getting help solving this issue, I took a few pictures of the BIOS and the inside of my case... maybe it will help, I dunno.
Here are some pics:
The S-ATA cable connected to the Mother-Board
Back of the DVD burner with the S-ATA cable attached
BIOS - standard CMOS features
BIOS - Integrated Peripherals
On-Chip IDE configuration
P.S
I have a DVD ROM(Toshiba, nothing special) and I would of course occasionally like to burn Dvds/Cd's from my DVD ROM to my DVD burner. However, seeing as the DVD burner is S-ATA, there is no physical connection what so ever between the two drives(unlike in P-ATA connection where each cable has 3 "connections", 2 for drives(hard or optical) and one for the Motherboard) I really don't know how I can "achieve" this.

A friend of my father's, whose occupation is a computer technician toke a look at the PC and bios settings today.
WE tried EVERYTHING and It still wouldn't work so we concluded that the problem is probably in the hardware.
There were two possible "suspects" here - The Mother Board(specificially the S-ATA controller/ports on it) or the drive itself.
We connected the drive to my sister's computer and it worked like a charm.
So the answer was clear - something was wrong with the board.
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Well
that's the end of that story

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Well first of all, you dont install the Intel S-ATA Driver Disc unless you are going to create a RAID Array....Go into the BIOS and on the "On-Chip IDE Configuration" Page Set the Options like this.........
On-Chip ATA Operate Mode : Legacy
ATA Configuration : P-ATA+S-ATA
Keep S-ATA Enabled : (Greyed Out Yes)
Keep P-ATA Enabled : (Greyed Out Yes)
P-ATA Channel Selection : Both
Combined Mode Operation (At first you have to set this to P-ATA Channel 1, then switch after you Move Windows to S-ATA)
Configure S-ATA As RAID : No
Then you are Going to have to Install the OS on The SATA and Just Move the Files that you want to save from the P-ATA HDD and then Remove the P-ATA Drive from the "Boot Device" List in the BIOS....
You really should List Your Full System Specs. When you POST...Create a "Signature" with your Forum User Control Panel...........Sean REILLY875

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