Largest hard drive in a 630?

[johnklos]

Nothing to apologize about. Sometimes it's tricky - I remember years ago going through many formatting tools trying to find something that'd work with IDE drives (all the old ones don't know about IDE) and also would let me create partitions for NetBSD. I remember I had to do something like connect it to a PowerPC Mac's IDE bus, partition it there, then bring it to the Quadra 630, run a certain version of Disk Utility, and use the "Update Driver" function to get a bootable disk.

I'll try to find the details...

 

[yuhong]

The fastest HD you can use on these machines is a PIO 3 standard, which is early ATA-2 drives. On the drive itself it should not list a speed higher than 11.1 mbps. or a cycle time of less than 180 NS. This should be located on the sticker on the drive.

The fact is that all ATA hard drives are backward compatible and can run all the way down to the lowest PIO mode if necessary.

 

[classic]

Yep LC630

Partitioned 3 ways:

80GB HD pilfered from an deceased imac G4 800mhz

1:Standard:Running Mac OS 8.1 circa 2GB

2:Extended 37.2GB

3:Extended 37.2GB

It is also running higher RAM than Apple Spec @ 132MB

+it has one of these fitted:

http://www.forcedperfect.net/hardware/cards/applempegmediasystem/

Full FPU 040

Video-In Card

TV tuner Card

Its one of the most expandable and diverse 68k Macs I've come across.

 

[register]

Dear classic, thank you for the hint to use a disk drive preused inside a more recent machine.

Just for clarification:

Which machine did you use to initialise the drive and set up partions (like your iMac G4)?

What a drive setup software and software version did you use?

Did you perform any kind of harddisk magic, like using a specific partition of a restricted size as a 68k boot partition (like using only the first partition with a size of max 2 GB)?

Btw: nice maxed out 630

 

[classic]

I booted the LC630 via an external scsi drive with Mac OS 8.1 installed.

I used Drive Setup 1.4 and yes I did have the first boot partition initialised standard and less than 2GB

btw with the scsi drive performance felt way snappier and is quite spacious at 36GB, but being an external drive, its a bit clunky.

Still, 80GB is a big improvement on the 350MB drive that preceded it! :approve:

 

[senrew]

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.