Replacement drive for Blue/White G3

Found a good price on a WD Caviar 160gb. But it says it is ATA II. Will it work inside this computer. I want to swap it out with the original drive and use it as the boot up drive.

The Blue & White G3 does not have native SCSI support, so you must be using a PCI card SCSI controller. If your Blue & White G3 shipped in the "Server" configuration, that card could be an Adaptec with 5 digit number, or Apple/ATTO such as the UL2D with second internal connector de-populated. The pale yellow to white "teflon" cable is folded in a convoluted way to allow each of the the three drive connectors to reach a drive right-side up. The black gizmo at the end is a terminator. Only 68-pin SCSI drives will fit on that cable without adapters.
Macs like yours can use drives on any or all of their busses.
If your Mac shipped with the "stacking bracket" shown in this article, it is almost certain to be a rev 2, whose very short IDE/ATA cable can accept up to two IDE/ATA drives, one set to Master and one set to Slave.
58193 -- Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White): Additional Hard Drive Installation Options

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