AS a related aside i did a cable hack to my 630 in which i ran a scsi 
able to the HD 'dock' area. But be wared i hack to chop up the guts 
somethign fierce


>I'm looking at getting a *large* drive for my Q630, to make my new 
>development machine (currently using a IIsi, 2GB SCSI)...  and, of 
>course, this happens to be an ATA based machine.
>
>Staying away from ATA/100 drives, I found a Seagate Barracuda ATA/66 
>drive in the $125 range (damn, drives have gotten cheap!) which is 
>30GB.  What problems, other than the installer maybe glitching on 
>large partitions, can I expect with this?  I'd presume from the age 
>of the machine that the PROM code can't handle LBA mode, but could 
>probably boot off of a small Mac/OS partition at the beginning of 
>the drive...
>
>Suggestions?  Thoughts?  Comments?


AS a related aside i did a cable hack to my 630 in which i ran a scsi 
able to the HD 'dock' area. But be wared i hack to chop up the guts 
somethign fierce.