beige g3 test machine

[madmann]

I have been playing with my beige g3 I have over clocked it from 300 to 366. i currently have os 8.1 , 9.2, and 10.2 installed. I hate to give up on an old mac. i am going to attempt to turn it into a digital photo album / fish tank. my plan was to hang the largest lcd display i could get on the wall and drive it with the old g3

[Turboladdade]

Is this a question?

[madmann]

no it was a statement


I partitioned the hard drive into . i can go from os 8 to 9 or 10 by choosing the startup disk. but in os 10 I can only boot to os 9 from 9 I can go either way 10 or 8. i thought this was interesting.

also i have been setting up mech warrior on the old g3 "my son loves this game". and the zip drive does not read the disk and wants to format it. i have checked several other and they all need to be formated i know they have data on them. i re formated one with no data and it works fine. any ideas? "a question" hows that dan

michael

[Turboladdade]

Perhaps you're trying ZIP 250 disks in a ZIP 100 drive?

[madmann]

no they are 100 meg disks
will a 250 meg drive read the 100 meg disks?

i also think that the drive that is giving me problems came from a wintel machine is their a difference?

the disk i reformated seams to work fine in the g3

but i take it to the b&w and it will not read it.

[macuser77]

I never had any trouble converting a wintel drive to the mac, but once i put Mac formtted drive in a PC, reformatted it and it pretty much killed the PC within 10 minutes.

Zip100 disks should work with a zip250 drive.

[madmann]

can you define reformat the drive

is that just plug the drive into the ide buss and reformat the disk?