I've had this Performa 630 or awhile now, and it's starting to piss me off... I put a HD is and booted from the original restore CD.It boots and I click Internal HD Format...It says there is no ATA device in Que(Or however it's spelled) It does this with any HD I have in Master or slave configuration...Help?
Current IDE/ATA drives come formatted differently from the factory than the drives in vogue did when your 630 was produced. These newer IDE drives now include partitioning information, which is unrecognizable by the Internal HD Format application Apple shipped with systems prior to 7.5.2 (which includes your 630), as
this Apple tech article explains.
The workaround is to use the Drive Setup application that began shipping with System 7.5.2 and later, which is able to correctly reformat these newer drives. My suggestion is to
download the Drive Setup 1.2 image, create a floppy, boot with your Restore CD, and run Drive Setup from the floppy disk. (It is fully compatible with the older system software, even though it wasn't shipped until a system revision or two later.)
Alternatively, you can
download the newer System 7.5.3 from Apple's website (in 19 parts; they combine after download to one image) and burn a CD. Then, boot your 630 with this CD, run the newer version of Drive Setup that is included, and install System 7.5.3.
Finally, note that the 630-series does not support two devices on the ATA bus. Make sure your hard disk is jumpered as a master, and make sure you're only attempting to attach a single device.
Best of luck,
Cody
