Largest hard drive in a 630? — #45

Post #45 by senrew

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	68k
Post Date	Tue, 16 Apr 2013 - 16:26
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/largest-hard-drive-in-a-630.12469/

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Necroing the hell out of this thread, but I had a similar situation here.

I apologize if I spread misinformation about the usage of HFS+ partitions. My experience was that a Performa 630 with a 20 GB Maxtor IDE drive would not boot with any HFS+ partition on that drive, no matter if the boot partition was HFS. It might depend strongly to the make of disk drive and the formatting tool you chose, probably to the order of partitions. I attempted several times to fix the issue, but anytime I made any of the partitions HFS+ the P630 refused to boot from that same disk at all.

No matter what combination of partitions and filesystem I used with a few different drives and different versions of the disk tools, I could not boot my 631CD if there were *any* HFS+ partitions on the disk. I really don't know how to find what makes my machine different where other people can get around this.