I have a performa 631 and it will see most older IDE hard drives. I have a 30gb drive with multiple partitions in mine. I also still have the working 500mb unit too.
I still have the working restore cd I could make an image of too. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 31, 2016, at 6:49 PM, 'Keith Jamison' via Vintage Macs > <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hi Fernando, > > If I remember correctly, the 631 uses an IDE drive. > > I don't know the exact steps, however, you should be able to buy a SD to IDE > adaptor from eBay as well as a small SD card, such as 1GB or 2GB. > > You can format the SD card using a USB to SD adaptor in your own computer and > install OS7.5.1 using the floppy disk images that can be downloaded from file > servers. > > The SD card must be formatted to 'Macintosh HFS' - NOT 'HFS+'. > > Also, I think the maximum size of disk partition is limited to 1GB so a 2GB > SD card would need to be split into two separate partitions. The Performa 630 > range came with 500MB drives. > > Use an emulator program like Sheep Shaver or Basilisk to run an old OS7.x > system. > > I use an SD card to IDE adaptor in my Performa 630CD with a 1GB card and it > is so quick to start up. > > This means it is easy to add more software as you shut down the 631 and > remove the SD card - use your emulator to copy disk images (dsk or img files) > to the SD card and then put it into the 631 again. > > Hope this gives you some things to think about. > > You might also try to find a 631CD recovery CD on eBay. > > Cheers, > > Keith > > > On Thursday, 31 March 2016, 21:26, Fernando Korstanje <ferkor1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I would like to put mi old performa to work. > Any help about where I can find an operating hard disk formated and with > everithing on it just to plug and play? > > yours > > Fernando, from Tucuman, Argentina > -- > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
