15 May
2013
15 May
'13
8:42 p.m.
On 15/05/13 11:24 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Toby Thain<toby
at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
Yes, the formatter, but you could still use the drives. There were
plenty of third party formatters. (HDT comes to mind.)
My first Mac was Mac Plus ... since then I am not
aware of any Mac that
couldn't use generic SCSI drives. I don't know what the Apple firmware did
(bug fixes?), but nothing was locked to it.
Sure there was... back in the Mac II days, the Apple formatter checked
for Apple drives in the copyright string (via IDENT packet, AFAIK).
The drivers were not Apple-drive specific, so there were 3rd-party
formatters that would get that industry-standard drive working with
your Mac.
I have multiple Seagate ST1480N drives. Most were out
of Suns, but
one has an Apple sticker on the outside and says (in part) "(c) Apple"
when you query it.
Yes, I've seen plenty of Apple branded drives (mostly Quantum era). But
you didn't have to use those, as Zane mentioned; they were just what
came OEM.
--Toby
-ethan