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I have a nice 4GB hard drive that I was going to use in my Amiga but can't (the Amiga won't detect the CD drive with this hard drive attached for some reason), so I figured I might as well stick it in my Mac Classic.  4GB is just freaking huge for a Mac Classic, so I was thinking I might do...

Well if I ever get another CM I'll leave the screen size as is.   :)

Well my board seems to be able to handle it ok, or I think it would have died by now.  I suppose if it does die I can always pick up a new one as Mac Classics are the one classic Mac no one seems to want (they're seriously misunderstood creatures).  I'm also loathe to go back in there an fiddle...

I'm only playing games, so WYSIWYG isn't important to me. :) Yeah I was as surprised as you are about the whack thing (it was more out of frustration than trying to fix it).  The board was recapped not too long ago so I can't believe that anything is dying.  Maybe something is loose (I did...

Quick question for everyone.  Is there any harm in adjusting the horizontal and vertical size of the picture in a compact Mac so it fills the entire screen (no black border)? I currently have my Mac Classic adjusted that way and haven't had any issues, but I don't want to damage it. I thought I...

Actually I have an external SCSI CD drive hooked up to my Mac and that has a terminator.  Would that work?  I guess I'll have to check it in see. 

So that goes in between the hard drive (well my adapter board) and the computer?  And my Mac (and my Amiga) probably won't work without one?

What do you mean by a "In-line SCSI terminator"? As for the amount of System 6 software, I'm really only talking about games.  I don't need application software (unless they augment games like that talking software).

I can try it with both and see what happens.  I don't think I can hard the drive in this way.  If I do, I have plenty of spares.

Well my post was about how to tell which games can be installed on a HD and which must be run from floppies.  Turns out there's really no way to tell other than to just try it.  However if someone wants to start making a list of floppy only/hard drive only games that would be interesting...

It's a Macintosh Classic running System 6.0.8. I actually have a directory full of System 6 games on my G3 that I snagged from Macintosh Garden, but it's hard to tell the true size of it since some of those archives include things like box and manual scans, disk images, and even some CD images...

Looks like the adapter I pictures has jumpers on the board, I assume one of those is for termination.  I can't read the board in the auction though, I'll have to check out what it says when I get home. Honestly my current 1GB drive will probably hold everything I need, but it would be nice to...

Doesn't the Mac already provide termination on the internal connector?  I don't recall having to fiddle with that with the drive that is currently in there, or is this different because it's a SCA SCSI drive?  

Thanks for all the information.   The reason I ask is that I have access to a whole bunch of 40-80 GB SCA SCSI drives (last one on this page  http://www.obsolyte.com/faq/ ) and I thought it would nice to put them in my Mac Classic (and my Amiga 2000 but that's a post for a different forum)...

That's what I assumed.  Can I do that through the standard System 6 install?

So if I put in a large hard drive (say 80GB) how many 2GB partitions can I make?  Obviously I wouldn't make that many, but I have access to a rather large hard drive and I thought it would be nice to make two or three partitions for all the games I have kicking around.

I have two questions: 1. How do you tell how big of a hard drive you have with System 6? 2. What is the maximum size hard drive you can use with System 6?

That's another thing that could prevent me from installing things on the HDD, programs that need specific versions of Mac OS to run.   No getting around that.

Could be.  I'll look into it this weekend.

How does one do that?  I'll admit I'm not as familiar with System 6 as I am with other OS's.