Re: [WinMac] Re: which IDE drive for a Performa 6320

jason hollis(nonsequiter19[at]hotmail.com)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:19:40 -0500

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i stand corrected. what i should have wrote is any currently
available (read "new") hard drive will do. yes? i can't think of a
single currently shipping hard drive that doesn't support the
aforementioned standards.

> Not quite true: Any old IDE drive will NOT do: IDE and EIDE drives will
>NOT work: The drive (for the 630 & 6300 series) must support (at least)
>support ATAPI.
>
> I *think* G3 machines need UDMA support as well; but don't quote me on
>that. Without UDMA support in both the controller *and* drive, CPU
>utilization will "peg out" at 100% during disk access' - With the MacOS,
>and *especially NT* this can be devastating.
>
> Most likely, your new 18 gig drive supports UDMA (although
>your controller
>might not); and most definitely your 18 gig drive supports ATAPI.
>

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