On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 11:47 AM, The Barbers wrote:
> It is very frustrating that I have to reinstall either the original or a > hacked version of my CD extention when I update operating systems on my > clone. It is simply mean-spirited on the part of Apple not to cover the > few non-Apple CD's that were covered by their previous OS's. I feel at > risk having a CD that will only boot on the original Starmax disk in an > emergency. Motorola chose to use a third party CD Drive. For most of the cloning period the cloners used a third party CD ROM driver, not the Apple driver. It is up to Motorola, Umax, and the third party drive software manufacturer to satisfy you, not Apple (unless you have Power Computing). Apple only put out the universal driver for a brief period of time. Only one OS revision contained it. It was not as good as subsequent drivers. In my experience, while you can hack the Apple driver to get a minimum software connection, it does not work as well as the unhacked driver with a supported drive. Why should Apple provide crippled functionality to their customers so that clone customers could get access to their drives when that access was originally provided by a third party? (I wish I could remember the third party's name) Or, why should Apple write specialized drivers for all that clone hardware when it was always up to the cloners to support specialized hardware? BTW, if you have a clone you can pick up a real Mac internal drive that is as fast or faster for tres cheap now. It would be nice if Apple supported more drives. But they are not obligated to support them. They were not like Microsoft. They were not trying to satisfy a large and varied hardware market. They were just being the OEM for the core OS while others tacked on what they wanted in order to differentiate. If one of those tacked on things was a cheaper CDROM drive or a unique video card Apple is under no obligation to support it (and neither would MS in most cases for that matter). -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
