Re: apple moving to x86

Stephen Hurd wrote:

> David Kelly wrote:
> <snop>
>
>> 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.

Indeed, as I said before, those days have been long gone, for many a 
moon. And, what's more, Stephens SE/30 should run System 7.5 (8 
even?...been awhile since I worked in the old OS's) which means, it 
should be able to deal with fairly large drives, larger if it can deal 
with HFS+. So, not even really a driver issue there, its one of disk 
format.

> <snip>.... but I seem to recall that the Macs that ship with SCSI 
> support use an Adaptec chipset... 

And, id also like to add...I typically had less of a problem with 
Adaptec stuff with Macs...than I did with PC's. Typically, adaptec stuff 
ran fairly well on Macs. But, I digress.

<snip>

> Thank goodness, since the stock ones are so terrible.

Heh, maybe now we can get a stock two button mouse. =)

-- 
Duo.

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