10 Jan
2001
10 Jan
'01
11:11 a.m.
> > The first alternative works very well
indeed. The second won't,
though.
> > Macs use hard drives with a particular Apple
firmware, without which
HD SC
Utility won't recognise the drive. Bloody stupid.
Another Apple
peculiarity would be its lack of support for remote start in
SCSI, so the hard drives will need to jumpered for automatic start on
power, but this won't affect other systems.
Non-Apple drives work quite well with Macs; however, while your
observation about the use of Apple's HD SC Utility is correct,
all non-Apple SCSI drives sold *FOR* the Mac come with their
own SCSI setup utility. For a SCSI
drive *NOT* sold _for_ a Mac, you'd need a third-party
toolkit like FWB' Hard Disk Tools (or whatever it's called). I've
used it to add IBM and DEC SCSI drives to a Mac.
I've got an Apple-edition IBM drive in a IIcx here. =)