Performa 630 newbie questions

[micheledipaola]

Thanks for the advices.
I tried the IDE2SD on a beige G3 (IIRC) and it worked flawlessly, being only a bit slow when booting (and it was a different model from Aliexpress, while the one I am trying, comes from Amazon). I will try the CF2IDE and let you know!

 

[micheledipaola]

More questions:

is there a modern battery model model that we can use in the Performa 630, or should I connect a button battery to the logic board pins?
In this case, any idea of the + and - pins position?

 

[micheledipaola]

The 630 had a very early implementation of IDE (for Apple), I've had difficulty getting solid state drives working on mine and ended up getting a quiet fast mechanical 2.5" IDE HD in the end. Try a CF to IDE first over SD (more complexity), and a smaller older CF card 1-2-4 GB.

Unsure about the CommSlot ethernet apart from cleaning the slot and contacts of the card.

After some contact and slot cleaning, the card now shows up in TattleTech:



(interesting board name BTW... EtherNet hack?!?)

now I just need to figure out how to install drivers. NSI 1.4.5 offers to install Ethernet Comm Slot Card drivers, but then the installer says it cannot replace the Network file and I should move it... but there is no Network control or extension whatsoever in the whole disk as far as I can see. Hidden file maybe?

 

[Byrd]

More questions:

is there a modern battery model model that we can use in the Performa 630, or should I connect a button battery to the logic board pins?
In this case, any idea of the + and - pins position?

It takes a 4.5V non-rechargeable battery, a cheap solution is to find a triple AA or AAA battery housing (3 x 1.5V) and rewire the old PRAM battery to this - see pinout below noting blanking pin on the connector.

 

[micheledipaola]

After some contact and slot cleaning, the card now shows up in TattleTech:

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(interesting board name BTW... EtherNet hack?!?)

now I just need to figure out how to install drivers. NSI 1.4.5 offers to install Ethernet Comm Slot Card drivers, but then the installer says it cannot replace the Network file and I should move it... but there is no Network control or extension whatsoever in the whole disk as far as I can see. Hidden file maybe?

Might be useful to others:

I managed to properly setup the Apple Ethernet CS twisted pair card ( = rj45 ethernet for the comm slot of the Performa 630)
and surf the web with Nescape 2.01.

How? I switched to MacOS 7.6.1 and manually moved the Apple Ethernet CS extension (from the Apple Talk Files folder in the Network Software Installer v.1.5.1 disk) to my Extensions folder.

For some reason, previous installations of OpenTransport or NSI did not install this extension - maybe I was using old/wrong versions (the Italian releases that I managed to find and preserve are very few...) but anyway this seems to have done the trick.

Now Appletalk control accepts appletalk over ethernet, and TCP/IP (with manual IP settings... will try DHCP later) gives me access to the web:

 

[micheledipaola]

Regarding the issues booting from CF2IDE cards: low level format of the CF card and updated drivers with FWB Toolkit made the trick, and now the 630 boots from the CF card with no problem!

 

[LaPorta]

Regarding the issues booting from CF2IDE cards: low level format of the CF card and updated drivers with FWB Toolkit made the trick, and now the 630 boots from the CF card with no problem!

Using the hacked version of Drive Setup works, too.

 

[micheledipaola]

Using the hacked version of Drive Setup works, too.

Previously I had formatted the card with the standard version of Drive Setup, but as I wrote, I got no boot - I didn't know there was a hacked version of this one too, I only knew about the hack for the previous SCSI version (the "HD SC Setup" hacked to work with SCSI2SD etc). Could you point me to the hacked version of IDE Drive Setup, so that I can test it as well? thanks in advance.