I've got a Lite-On IDE CD-RW (48x 32x 16x) drive I wanted to put into my G3 to give it burning capabilities (and something better than the stock 24x drive), but there is something about it that kills MacOS 9 completely.
Drive plugged in, start OS 9 - it says Welcome to MacOS, and before the progress bar appears - it locks up totally. Only 0.01% of the time do I get a successful boot sequence. I've tried various versions and hacks of the CD driver but to no avail. OS X loves it - but then again it's Unix at heart and doesn't really care 
but CDs fail to burn at anything higher than 12x, but I put that down to the IDE bus.
I had a similar problem with a generic CD-ROM drive (I think it was a 50x drive). Froze on OS9 startup.
Any ideas?
the firmware of the drive? macs dont really play well with generic PC drives up until about 10.3.
make sure the drive is set to master, not slave
Yeah, it sounds like the jumpers. Is this on a B&W? If it's in your Beige, what ROM version is your Beige?
Rev C Beige G3 and the drive is Master. No other IDE devices installed.
Rev C Beige G3 and the drive is Master. No other IDE devices installed.
**oops.. it double posted...
Did you try stripping it down completely? Take out that Wings card and disconnect the floppy and try it.
My best bet would be checking the jumper settings (which I see has been posted. Ive used PC CD-roms in mac os 9 several times. Best one I've found as far as compatibility is ASUS. I assume your trying to put in os 9 or just trying to boot in general? If its a beige G3 than there a little more touchy. My 233/9600 was a little temper mental as well when it came to this.Good luck
It did it with the Whisper card in as well.
However... the problem isn't replicated booting 8.6 or 8.1 - strange.
It's actually quite ironic in a way, because the beige G3 motherboards are almost PC in a few respects - it has the pinout for a 34pin floppy drive connector (but no tracks on the PCB), and a jumper for the PSU, labelled "Mac" or "ATX"; the floppy drive, aside from its PCB is almost a normal PC one as they also have the missing parts. And the stock CD-ROM drive - older stock drives didn't have headphone socket, LED or volume knob - only filled-in cut-outs.
It's very happy in MacOS 8.6 .... OS X doesn't really care what the drive is as it's pretty much Unix under the hood