On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Al Poulin wrote:
> Do some new external drives have drivers that will not work on Macs at > all or with Macs running older versions of OS X? Or do their written > minimum requirements refer only to applications that people can do > without? No external drive now shipping needs Mac drivers, and they're almost universally formatted as FAT32, which the Mac reads and writes just fine. Actually no USB or Firewire drive that EVER shipped needed Mac drivers, so long as USB or FW support was loaded, from OS 8.6 on, possibly earlier. Most often what's on the CDs is some backup program or Windows 98 drivers. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
