Re: apple moving to x86

On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:06 AM, Stephen Hurd wrote:

> David Kelly wrote:
>>
>> No, "Apple SC Setup" would not do a non-Apple SCSI drive. This  
>> might  have changed with MacOS 9. MacOS X has never complained  
>> about any IDE  HD I have tried.
>>
>
> I never had a problem and was using either System 6 or System 7  
> (Never could justify shelling out for an OS for them)
> I don't remember *exactly* how I did it, but since they didn't have  
> Internet connectivity at the time, nor a modem, I must have used  
> stuff that came with the system.  Also, I don't remember any  
> difficulties at all.  Not to say I didn't have any at all, this was  
> years ago, but since this was among the very first things I ever  
> did with my very own Mac, I believe I would remember having issues  
> such as "cannot partition the drive".  The larger SCSI HDs still  
> persist in being the only drive in those systems.  I also remember  
> at work having gobs of external SCSI HDs hanging off of almost  
> every Mac... very few of which had the Apple of happiness on the  
> front.
> I suppose if I got *really* curious, I could fire 'em up and take a  
> peek.  I doubt I will though.

3rd party SCSI hard drives for the Mac almost always came pre- 
formatted. And always with a 3rd party driver on floppy unless one  
purchased a raw drive. At most set the SCSI ID and termination and  
one was up and running.

A simple "Get Info" on the drive icon will list the driver being used.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.

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