09-14-2012, 10:22 PM
Jimmypoo wrote:
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And there were no internal ATA buses on 68K Macs.
My Powerbook 540 begs to differ. It uses an ATA hard drive with an EXTERNAL SCSI connector.
The internals are run on ATA1 or ATA2.
I'm pretty sure the PowerBook 5xx used a SCSI interface, but some models shipped with an ATA drive in a SCSI adapter caddy.
timg,
My LC580 had a native ATA interface. I popped in a 120GB drive with Mac OS 8.1. Had to partition a small bit as HFS for booting, but the rest of the drive was HFS+. I think I ended up with 144MB RAM as well. Turned out to be a pretty awesome machine actually.