--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a question for you folks. > > I have a 4.1 GB Segate Baracuda hard drive running at 7200 rpms. I was > planning on placing it in an external case. However; if I place this in a > Quadra 605, will it burn the thing up? I would do it, but I'm afraid the > heat would be too much for this computer. > > Thanks for the advice guys. > > Scott
I just had an interesting experience here tonight with my Quadra 605 and an IBM 7200 rpm 4.2gb drive. Got it today, installed inside the Quadra, booted up from an external CD and everything was groovy. I loaded OS 8.1 (a full install) and went to restart and got a sad mac. I tried booting from an external CD and got a sad mac again. Tried booting from a Disk Tools disk and the hard drive doesn't mount! Then a 7.5 install disk says it can't recognize a volume larger than 4gb. So I gave up, sad macs were getting to me, so I took it out and reinstalled the 500mb Quantum Fireball that I put in the Q605 back in 1996 (which has worked well for me since then) and put the new 4.2gb IBM 7200 rpm drive in an external case. Booted up and the external drive was recognized by OS 8.1 without a problem. The SCSI ID is set to 0 when it is internal, for external use I set the jumper to 1. So I formatted it in to two 2gb partitions and reinstalled it inside the Q605. More sad macs, no love baby no love. Now I gave up having it inside the Q605. I tried active termination, which was not how it was when I first hooked it up inside and it was recognized when booted with my external CD drive. Now I can't get it to work at all. So I decided to just use it as an external drive for now. Too bad, I wanted a little Q605 with the huge internal drive! So that's my story. Dave ===== " Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
