Is it possible to hook up an IDE drive to an SE/30 via IDE-SCSI adapter card? Could the drive be used as a boot drive for system 7? What about system 6?
Thanks in advance
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IDE in SE/30?
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Definitely, it will just be seen as a hard drive exactly like the SCSI one would be. The trouble is finding a reasonably priced SCSI-IDE adapter. The other thing you can do with these is then buy a IDE-CF adapter and use a CompactFlash card as storage for your old Mac (silent, faster).
Consider browsing our Wiki pages. In case you use a recent drive attached to a vintage Mac you might need to format that drive using an outdated driver. If your Mac does not recognise the drive properly, try to reformat the drive using a formatter known to work for other drives in that same system. For Apple's own Drive Setup this might require a software patch, however.
I had thought about that. Has anyone successfully hooked up an IDE SSD and used it as a boot disk?
I for one have never tried any kind of IDE drive in my SE/30, more less SSD's. But I will admit that I want to try a flash drive in my machine at some point. Manabu Sakai of ARTMIX has long sold a flash card adapter setup for the SE/30, but it's not cheap and he refuses to give real world comparison feedback on how fast it is versus a normal 7200rpm spinning platter hard disk.
But you know, what would really be THE ULTIMATE solution is a custom made PDS card with 4GB or so of memory. Bypass the SCSI interface altogether and have your drive connect direct to the processor. It would be like having a RAM disk that never loses its contents. Not sure how compatible that would be, but I would LOVE to see something like that appear!
But you know, what would really be THE ULTIMATE solution is a custom made PDS card with 4GB or so of memory. Bypass the SCSI interface altogether and have your drive connect direct to the processor. It would be like having a RAM disk that never loses its contents. Not sure how compatible that would be, but I would LOVE to see something like that appear!
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Indeed that would be awesome, but I don't think my skills are in the realm of custom components...
...yet
...yet
Such things have been discussed before, at some length:
68060 accelerator cards for Mac: Would you be willing?
Dream peripherals (the return)
"Use the search, Luke"
Luke, er, Bunsen... Thanks for saving us the search! I found those two threads an interesting read. It was the first I'd heard of Coldfire. And in the first thread you mentioned, I found this fellow's insight on SCSI quite interesting:
http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=61401#61401
http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=61401#61401
