yea I would go IDE also if I were in his shoes :beige:

so at this point whats your options 1) internal drive + controller card 2) firewire drive, which is proving hard to find without a ridiculous price 3) usb2.0 drive + controller c…

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HAHAHAHAH Thanks Psssst The link to my wiki is not that necessary but if you really want to put it it's : http://68kmla.org/wiki/User:Mars478

Click to expand... OH MY GOD, I LOVE THIS THREAD SO MUCH. (Imma go steal that now. Congratulations, you're about to be remembered forever.)

Does this advice pertain to flash drive solutions? I ask because my IBM DGHS spinning platter drive is 4.5GB (i.e., "4GB and larger") and I formatted and partitioned it on my SE/30…

The most reliable combination I found for 4GB and larger drives was to put them in an OSX machine, partition them using Disk Utility using an Apple Partition scheme, but only 1 par…

If anyone has thoughts on what went sideways, I'd love to hear them. Click to expand... I've found differences in behavior and performance depending on what does the partitioni…

Thanks for the idea and your interest, I went back and once again successfully booted the IIci from the ADB keyboard! I tried my spare IIci speaker and I also closely examined the…

My Acard AEC-7720U scsi to ide card has a connection that drives an LED. When I had this installed with a 3.5 inch IBM 7200 IDE drive in my SE/30, I had the drive mounted backward…

so at this point whats your options 1) internal drive + controller card 2) firewire drive, which is proving hard to find without a ridiculous price 3) usb2.0 drive + controller …

when i asked my apple tech guy about the price difference between usb drives and firewire drives he noted as best as i understood that it's something to do about the power supply …

Actually I'm in Australia....but that makes sense - from what I hear CDN$ is usually pretty close to AU$.

your price is about the same in canada : must be the currency exchange from us$ to CDN$ albeit these days its close to being equal when i asked my apple tech guy about the price d…

and geez lc guy, where the heck do you live that a box with a 3$ chip is so expensive? ive got a 5.25, 3.5 and 2.5 usb enclosures all for free brand new (cause they infest the eart…

well I guess I should have noted usb2 vs firewire usb1 vs firewire is like putting johnny carson against the rock

Yes, it is true about Mode32 on the CC. I found a copy ate umich and installed (not before reading the README, but decided to give it a try). Didn't work. About the RAM, it was th…

firewire for a dvd drive is abit overkill and its more expensive Click to expand... I don't understand which for me is not uncommon. When i used a (external) FireWire DVD dr…

I agree with installing sata why bother! in other posts it was suggested that to maximize the speed of the 7600 to install atto ul2s controller for faster scsi. I do own a sonne…

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firewire for a dvd drive is abit overkill and its more expensive and geez lc guy, where the heck do you live that a box with a 3$ chip is so expensive? ive got a 5.25, 3.5 and 2.5…

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Not to mention a lot more expensive - I can buy a USB drive enclosure here for $50. I might be looking at anywhere up to $80 to $100 for a USB/FireWire enclosure. Its a shame too, …

No problem, that's even better.

15 AU/ 10 US? Plus Shipping? I can get it to you this weekend and then I can take pictures and send them to you. Click to expand... Ok... Uh, I hope you'd excuse the request, b…