commodorified I have discovered the answer to 'can you swop out the scsi drive and replace it with an IDE drive and make it boot' is 'you are the first person I've talked to mad enough to remove her Mac's main HD and replace it with an IDE drive'
commodorified ans: looks like you can, yah
damned_colonial ok, you didn't tell me you were replacing scsi with ide
commodorified well, I didn't know I was until I realized I had kind of slashy components.
damned_colonial slashy... components
commodorified so I called Ian and said "I have too many male connectors' and he said 'oh. that is because' and then is when he explained the SCSIs and the IDEs to me.
commodorified HDs? don't do frottage.
commodorified they are so heteronormative
commodorified except there's different cabling that WILL, err. take that. Right behind the first lot, actually.
commodorified oh god
commodorifiedI just slashed my mac with itself
commodorified so i shoved it in there. It seems to like it