Upgrading 6100's HD and CD

Hello everyone! I got a 6100 (for free) recently and I want to upgrade the computer in order to "get things works"... here's the specification of my 6100:

Power Macintosh 6100/60AV
250MB Hard Disk
8MB Ram (Should be upgraded later)
System 7.6.1
AppleCD 300i 2x CD Rom

I want to upgrade the HD and CD Rom of the computer. I found some 68 pin HDs or 80 pins HDs but not 50. Can I get a adapter to make it works with my 6100? Are there any "maximum drive size" limitation? Can it use hard disks that is larger than 2GB?

Next thing is the CD Rom. Yea, it's too slow. Can I get any SCSI CD Rom that uses 50 pins (or more pins with adapter)? I saw a AppleCD 12x in a store. Is it compatible to my 6100?

Thanks for reading and sorry for my poor English...

Cheers

Mack

iMac G4/700, iMac DV/400, iBook SE/366, PB 100*2, PB 520, PM6100/60AV, Mac OS X (10.4.6), iPod 2G(20GB), Newton MessagePad 110(1.2), HP Pavilion a845hk(Windows XP SP2)

Posted on May 16, 2006 8:01 AM

May 19, 2006 7:16 AM in response to Macinnerd

Macinnerd,

Quick recap. This site gives all the details but requires careful reading.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=8647

Starting with system 7.5, access to drive storage space required that the drives, of what ever size be partitioned into manageable volumes. With 7.5 the 2 gig per volume limit was raised to 4 meg. System 7.5.2 raised it to unlimited, in all current reality, so you would not have to partion a drive of any size.

That is the issue. Today's reality of no one needing 2,000 gig of storage will become tomorrow's pitance of storage.

The 3.8 GB size would be fine as a single volume under system 7.5, partitioned into two equal 1.9 GB volumes for systems 6 and early 7s.

Jim

PS, your comment about hard drive size can also be interpreted as physical size - drives were getting smaller with greater capacity.