My 6400/200 is maxed out Ram wise, and has a Sonnet G3/300 and runs great.
The internal HD is IDE, and you can put a big one in there. There may be
some probably recognizing the big drives with certain disk utilities, so
watch out there and maybe someone with more know how can help with that.
You can have 1 internal IDE drive, you cannot daisy chain them. Take out
the 2.4, put in your 40, and then copy the data from the external. Then put
your 2.4 back in, copy the data to your external, and then put the 40 back
in and copy again. I'm sure there is a more technically savvy way of doing
this.
The 6400 will take a USB card. I bought one for a Wintel box and it
installed fine with Apple drivers. I have been using it to power USB CDRW
and Printer for months.
Don't copy your system folder, since you will be doing a clean install on
the new drive. Just copy your data, and at most the preferences from the
old system folder. This will cut down on your clutter.
Jeff
6400
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott J. MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Performa 6400/200
I purchased a Performa 6400/200 in May 97. I find it adequate but would
like advice on several matters and would like to thank anyone in advance
for any assistance they can give.
Currently I have my Performa 6400/200 running OS 9. It has a 2.4 GB
internal hard drive and a 2 GB hard drive and 48MB RAM. I believe it has
room for another internal hard drive and I would like to install another
larger internal hard drive maybe 20 or 30 GB. What type of connection
hard drive do I need i.e. SCSI or IDE and if IDE can I use an EIDE. Also
I would like to transfer the info from the current internal hard drive
and the external hard drive onto the new hard drive and disconnect
those. I also want to keep the info separate on a separate place on the
new drive so I guess I need to know what I need to copy the info onto
the new drive and how to isolate it from the info of each of the other
hard drives info and from doing clean install of all the software I have
now. I also want to do a fresh install of all my software onto the new
drive so my mac runs like it should. Also how can I check the other hard
drives for duplicate information/files/applications. Can I install a USB
or firewire or USB/firewire card on this mac with the OS I have as all
my current peripherals are SCSI and most new ones are USB or firewire
particularly digital cameras and I would like to be able to add some of
those. As I said earlier speed wise my Mac is OK I just need to clear up
the clutter so my mac can run as it should.
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