Question about Takky and IDE hard drives

Submitted by BeniD82 on August 2, 2005 - 1:24am

Greetings everyone.

I was wondering if it is possible to use a non-Apple IDE device in a Takky-modded Colour Classic. Or does the disk have to be Apple-branded. I'm using a SCSI drive so far but I have a fairly large additional IDE drive lying around at home, basically useless. Could the standard IDE drive work? For non-apple SCSI devices, there is the A/UX disk formatter. Is there a different utility used for IDE drives or does it use the same? Anyone? Cheers!

Ben

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Submitted by eeun on August 2, 2005 - 10:14am.

You should be able to use any IDE drive in your Takky, though depending on the OS you're running you may end up with a lot of small partitions.
Later versions of Apple Disk Tools that came with an IDE-equipped Macintosh should work.

Submitted by BeniD82 on August 5, 2005 - 4:06am.

Thanks for the info eeun! I'll give it a try then.