BZZZTT! WRONG!
Drives are drives, an IDE drive which is new to a chain must be set to slave no
matter if its a Mac or PC, its a bus requirement. SCSI drives work EXACTLY the
same on Macs as PCs as do SATA. In fact Macs have had over the years some
extremely convoluted rules about what drive can go in, how big it can be, what
controller it can use, etc.
Fortunately for all computer users SATA drives are really quite simple as you
put one drive on one connector. As long as you've got connectors you can add
drives.
In fact I want to pick up an SATA board soon as SATA drives are very cheap and
I want to add more storage to my video editing system.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:13:18 -0500
From: Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - New computer
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Macs are easier -- I have hooked up all sorts of combinations of hard
drives (SCSI, IDE, external, internal, firewire, USB) with no
trouble at all.
They also read Windoze and DOS disks and hard drives, although the
programs will only run if you have the correct emulation software
loaded.
Peter
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