At 9:51 PM +0100 3/30/02, schaecsn@gmx.net wrote:
>Hello,
>
>>  it would make more sense to get an
>>  installation up and running on a small SCSI drive in order to play
>>  with the experimental IDE support. You're really reaching, expecting
>>  to do a virgin install on IDE. Lotsa Luck!
>
>thanks, but I needed to give up installing NetBSD on Quadra 630 / IDE. I
>managed to partition the disk with pdisk but I was even unable to 
>install MAC-OS
>on it, again. One can't install MAC-OS from floppy, one needs to do it from
>a harddrive.

Who told you that you couldn't install MacOS from floppies? System 
7.5.3 floppy images can be found at:

http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.5_Version_7.5.3/

>  I couldn't attach a second IDE harddrive because I was unable to
>open the case ;-(

I don't know that the IDE bus supports master and slave (but I don't 
know that it doesn't either)

>SCSI drives? Inside on the front left side is some space for an additional
>harddisk or CDROM drive. I assume there is the SCSI interface, but I have
>never seen such an adaptor
>for SCSI drives.

It's standard SCSI II, you don't need any adapters.

HTH
Mike
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