I doubt you could go much beyond 4x... If I'm not mistaken, the older Macs
didn't support DMA or UltraDMA on their IDE controller. Someone correct me
if I'm wrong.


Terry
> Assuming I can physically fit things (cables, etc.) is there
> any reason why I couldn't hook up a cheap, fast IDE CD-R drive in a
> 5400?  (Heck, I'd even let it hang out back behind the cpu.)
>
> I believe you can only put one drive on the old Mac IDE bus,
> but I could use an external SCSI drive to boot the machine.
>
> Any wisdom on trying this?


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