Hey everybody, in a recent effort to put Windows 95 on a very old PC laptop, I think I might have fried my PowerBook G3's IDE controller.

As far as I can tell, it won't identify the 2 gig hard disc from the PC, or it's own 30 gig hard disc properly, and OS 9 booted from my USB flash drive (surprisingly fast, actually) fails to initialize the 2 gig drive when that is hooked up, and it identifies my 30 gig drive as 4032 megabytes.

Is this necessarily a failed IDE controller, or should I continue prodding at it in various ways, to see if I haven't messed something up?
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I feel foolish now. It turns out, the ide cable came unplugged. I removed the processor card, plugged it back in and everthing works a treat now.
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Heh, that happens to everyone from time to time. I remember having a heck of a time getting Red Hat to boot on a DEC Alpha we used to have at my internship, and in the end the problem was that I had stupidly removed the SCSI terminator from the end of the chain thinking it was just a cap on the connector.



I'm glad it's working for you!

Peace,
Drew
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