my Performa 638 had an IDE hard drive and a SCSI CD-ROM

these are the ones with the FPU-less 68040 right?

if i remember correctly, i had once stuck in an 80GB Maxtor IDE; it worked
no problem but i think it took hours (days even?) to do a full format

i am pretty sure you can attach a SCSI hard drive to the 50-pin CD-ROM cable

i also had 2x64MB 72-pin simms in there too, and it took a couple of minutes
to coldboot (memory test)

so about the hard drive, pretty much any IDE drive will do it

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Chuck Bush <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 8/8/09 2:59 PM, "Steve Cole" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Also, are there any limits to the size of the internal HDD? If I grab
> > a 1 or 2GB ide drive from ebay for a few pounds, will the system
> > recognise it??
>
> Most of your questions I can't answer, but I believe the 630 I have is a
> SCSI disk, not IDE. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. I believe you
> are limited to 2 GB being recognized, but if you get a 4 GB HD, I think you
> can divide it into two partitions so that the Mac will think you have two 2
> GB HDs. I love the 630, it is a great machine if you run software made for
> it during its time!
>
> Chuck
>
>
> >
>

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