The Barbers wrote:
> My Starmax came with a drive that was supported by Apple on the System
> CD 7.6. as well as the original Starmax CD. I just used it to start up.
> And my starmax used the Apple Driver for the CD rom, not a third party
> driver. So basically, Apple went out of their way and purposefully
> deleted my drive from the Apple software driver.
>
> Thanks Apple
>
> Bill Barber
>
> John Christie wrote:
> >
> > 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).
> >
>
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