David Kelly wrote:
On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote:
David Kelly wrote:
Think possibly I didn't speak clearly enough. Apple is not
*adding* commodity-ness to their product line. Thinking about it
I'd bet part of the deal with Intel is a special crypto block or
similar in the CPU uniquely identifying it as an Apple Blessed
CPU. Apple does this very thing with disk drives. Originally Apple
SCSI drivers would only format and configure Apple-blessed drives.
Currently the same thing holds true for internal CD/DVD drives.
But put the same non-Apple drive on Firewire and MacOS is happy
with it.
You must be dealing with an older "originally" than I. I've
replaced the 40MB HD in an SE/30 with a 700-oddMB IBM one from a PS/
2 with no issues. Ditto for a pair of uh... *goes and looks* IIci
macs. Are we talking way back when Apple didn't use standard SCSI-1
(Which, I think is because there was no formal standard)? May as
well complain that you couldn't replace the "non-standard" 800k
floppy with a "standard" 720k one.
No, "Apple SC Setup" would not do a non-Apple SCSI drive. This might
have changed with MacOS 9. MacOS X has never complained about any IDE
HD I have tried.
I never had a problem and was using either System 6 or System 7 (Never
could justify shelling out for an OS for them)
I don't remember *exactly* how I did it, but since they didn't have
Internet connectivity at the time, nor a modem, I must have used stuff
that came with the system. Also, I don't remember any difficulties at
all. Not to say I didn't have any at all, this was years ago, but since
this was among the very first things I ever did with my very own Mac, I
believe I would remember having issues such as "cannot partition the
drive". The larger SCSI HDs still persist in being the only drive in
those systems. I also remember at work having gobs of external SCSI HDs
hanging off of almost every Mac... very few of which had the Apple of
happiness on the front.
I suppose if I got *really* curious, I could fire 'em up and take a
peek. I doubt I will though.
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