Performa 630 IDE Hard Drive Replacement — #13

Post #13 by LazarusNine

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	PowerPC
Post Date	Sat, 28 Feb 2015 - 19:55
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/performa-630-ide-hard-drive-replacement.1351/

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Byrd said:
Hi,

I've added large EIDE hard disks to my Q630 and its not minded one bit, that being both an 80 or 120GB drives, running OS 8.1 formatted as HFS+ so to not worry about partitioning issues on older operating systems. I'm pretty sure I formatted the drive on a G3 Mac running OS 9 before plugging it into the 630.

Cooling is poor in these cases though, so I wouldn't go for a hot running drive; for example some 7200RPM models do get quite toasty. You could also pick up a $5 CF to IDE adapter and experiment with this.

JB

Hello JB,

I am struggling to get the newer 160GB drive recognised by a patched version of the Drive Setup utility (v1.5), so I'm thinking that I need to do as you said - format the drive using another Mac before hand. Sigh...will have to pull the drive out of my MDD G4 temporarily! Will keep in touch. My CD issues (see previous post) still stand, which is a shame. It appears as a SCSI device in Drive Setup, but I can't get the Mac to seem to want to do anything with it.

Regards,

LazarusNine