still havent gotten the 6360's IDE hard drive to wake up and show
itself.
but i got in all my add ons, to soup it up. now i just gotta persist
till i solve the problem of getting the hard drive to show itself.
I'm getting to the point of getting ready to just forget using the IDE
hard drive and just put a SCSI 2gig hard drive on it, maybe in an
external case, and put it on the back SCSI chain.
and then play with seeing if i can put the DVD player on the IDE bus
and move the CD ROM drive out onto the SCSI chain too..
I probably have to put the hard drive out there :
it'll have to be a SCSI one, since i doubt the internal bus is designed
to handle two IDE devices in master-slave order, like a PC, and why put
an IDE hard drive in a SCSI case when you can just put a SCSI one in it?
i only have one SCSI internal ribbon on the bus to use., and one IDE
device on the internal bus, so it's gonna have to be either the native
IDE hard drive [which is being coy and not showing up for me anyway] and
no DVD,
or put the DVD on the IDE ribbon internally in the CD rom 's space, and
put in a SCSI hard drive
I can put other SCSI things on, too--namely the
CD rom, the CD burner...
then again-- here's a crazy thought:
internally, I have one IDE connection, one floppie connection, and one
SCSI connection.
Apple meant for the configuration to be
the IDE for the internal hard drive,
the internal SCSI for the CD ROM,
and floppie for floppie.
but why? why that?
what do you guys think:
what if i put the DVD on the IDE connection,
a SCSI hard drive on the SCSI connector and floppie on floppie.
?????????????????????????????
anyone know reasons why it might give me trouble?
i ask this with regards to
internal SCSI bus speed vs external
hard drive read times, SCSI vs IDE
one IDE drive as master all by itself,
which would, in this notion, be the DVD player, instead of the hard
drive,
assigning SCSI ID's
and which OS I was working in.
??????????????????????????
once I get a hard drive to show up on it and work, then i can proceed
with:
adding the composite TV module to the logic board
adding the coax unit to the back
adding the extra EDO RAM to the board
putting the ATI rage 128 16MB video board in the PCI slot
with the DVD decoder board put onto it,
install the sonnet crescendo G3L2 cache processor with 400Mhz chip and
1MB backside cache
and who knows? might even move the floppy drive out on the SCSI chain
and put another cooling fan in its place, to pull air for the G3 chip,
using the floppie slot as air intake or exhaust.
I am still collecting original install sets of all the classic mac OS's
on CD. because I
want to make a moveable SCSI external hard drive, partitioned, with
sectors holding 7.6.1, OS 8.1, OS 8.6 and OS 9.1
plus select hacks, so that i can boot into them at will, as well as
move this drive around from machine to machine, using the SCSI chain on
the back to plug it into.
you can tell, I pretty much expect at this point to run into more old
macs up the road, given the story so far.
and some things run better in one OS than in another. so I might as
well have them handy.
what do you think? would my notion of using the internal connections
this way work OK?
anything to watch out for?
janet
http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE
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