{"id":1282,"date":"2020-09-07T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2022-06-19T12:41:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T11:41:41","slug":"ide-to-sd-quickstart-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"IDE to SD Quickstart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>IDE to SD Quickstart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The following guide is designed to get up and running quickly with a IDE to SD adapter when you don&#8217;t have any installed OS on your antique IDE (aka ATA) Macintosh such as the Quadra 630, Macintosh 6500 or Beige G3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following are required :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>An IDE to SD adapter board<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.balena.io\/etcher\/\" target=\"_blank\">A copy of the program Etcher<\/a><\/li><li>An SD card of at least 4GB<\/li><li>An elderly Macintosh with an IDE interface (laptop or desktop)<\/li><li>A modern computer (MacOS X, Linux or Windows)<\/li><li>Time<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have two different types of IDE to SD adapter, although I&#8217;ve only used the smaller type as I use one in my Powerbook. The first example has a smaller laptop style connector. The second has a full size IDE connector. If you get the laptop variant, you can get adapters for your adapter. I have had issues with the second type in my beige G3 (with a Rev A ROM). Weirdly, even though they&#8217;re on independent buses, it behaves better if I unplug the CD-ROM drive. Early G3 (beige and iMac) appears to be&#8230; sensitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i.ebayimg.com\/images\/g\/H94AAOSwxp9W6oUO\/s-l300.gif\" alt=\"New Secure Digital 44 Pin 2.5&quot; Male IDE To SD Card Adapter Amiga 600 1200  #100 | eBay\"\/><figcaption><img alt=\"3.5&quot; 40Pin 40-Pin Male IDE To SD\/SDHC\/MMC memory Card SD to 3.5 IDE Adapter  - Newegg.com\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.neweggimages.com\/ProductImage\/A1XR_1_201811031220196810.jpg\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the following disk image onto your modern computer. This contains both a 2GB &#8220;Restore&#8221; partition with a bootable copy of Mac OS 8.1, installation disk images for Mac OS 7.1.2 to 8.1 and some utilities etc. to make life easier, as well as a second, empty, 2GB partition for you to install a second OS if you please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/downloads\/Mac81IDESDv1.1.zip\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/downloads\/Mac81IDESDv1.1.zip\">ATA Version of 8.1 Plus Installers and Utilities<\/a> (~600MB download)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unzip the disk image in the download and save it somewhere handy, such as the desktop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Install Etcher, insert your SD card into the modern computer, launch Etcher and follow instructions to select the downloaded disk image and your target SD card. Take care &#8211; you don&#8217;t want to flash it to your computer&#8217;s hard disk!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the card is written, eject it from your modern computer. Place it in the IDE to SD card adapter and insert it into your retro Macintosh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That should be it &#8211; you should be able to boot from the disk. You&#8217;ll need to add additional partitions if you want to use the rest of your SD card if it is bigger than these partitions (~1.9GB), but I&#8217;m not sure what the best software is for this with an IDE disk &#8211; probably <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/macintoshgarden.org\/apps\/fwb-hard-disk-toolkit-452\" target=\"_blank\">HDT<\/a> or similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is a previous, much smaller image which I made in the past. I haven&#8217;t had a chance to test it myself as I have been working on a G3 which wont boot 7.5.3, so feedback would be appreciated. This disk image can work with a minimum SD Card size of 2GB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/downloads\/Restore20200831.zip\">ATA Version of 7.5.3 Restore, plus Macintosh SD 7.6.1 partition<\/a> (~59MB download)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDE to SD Quickstart The following guide is designed to get up and running quickly with a IDE to SD adapter when you don&#8217;t have any installed OS on your antique IDE (aka ATA) Macintosh such as the Quadra 630, Macintosh 6500 or Beige G3. 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