Apple Hard Drives

[snowborder74]

another good question, got 2 ol apple 2 HDD drives and i was wondering although its probably quite the rig to do it, is there anyway that you can format one of those for use with a PC, its only from 1998 ish and isnt the greatest now and i am looking for some ways to tweak it out a little bit with performance

[wonderboy2005]

so long as its 40pin ide, there should be no problem. i know that (current) macs use the same HDDs as pcs, just format differently.

[snowborder74]

Thanks...i think one of the 2 were 40pin....the only other problem is that they dont have the place where you change things so it knows that its a slave and not a master

[chipperrox]

Originally posted by wonderboy2005
so long as its 40pin ide, there should be no problem. i know that (current) macs use the same HDDs as pcs, just format differently.

thats what i thought, till i was gonna steal the hd/dvddrive out of an imac (mine). That ide connector jumped from 40 to whatever the hell, it got bigger, il just say that.
translation: the dvd drive used a bigger pin ide than the standard 40 and apple sucks cause i need that drive god damnit!

[chipperrox]

Originally posted by snowborder74
Thanks...i think one of the 2 were 40pin....the only other problem is that they dont have the place where you change things so it knows that its a slave and not a master

i was under the impression that all jumpers off = slave

but u mean they dont have jumpers at all?

[snowborder74]

ok right now we have a WD caviar 2g attached as a slave, it took us 2 hours to figure it out cuz in between the pins and the power connecter was another set of pins and a plastic piece you put in a certain place for a certain function, so we changed it to slave and then both drives didnt try to boot anything just the original/ correct one