[geeks] [JuliaSacks930 at hotmail.com: [janglo] INFO4U: My Ipod Broke My Computer]

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:14:57PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> I have a Blue and White Macintosh G3 (original model) that only works
> with older drives. There is a flaw in the IDE controller chip and the
> fastest drive made that works with it is 20gig, anything newer is too
> fast. :-(

> In the year that I've had it, it's been through 4 hard disks. Not because
> of anything wrong with the computer itself, but to get a hard disk, I
> have to find one that's at least five years old and they all have been
> used and then put on a shelf, which decreases the lifetime once they
> get used again. 

You could always switch to SCSI or something else driven by a PCI card
instead of the motherboard.