16 May
2013
16 May
'13
12:08 a.m.
At 17:30 Uhr -0700 15.5.2013, Zane H. Healy wrote:
In close to 20 years, my Mac's have only ever had
one "Apple" drive
in them, and that is the drive they came with. Even with my 8500/180
I ran software that allowed the use of SCSI drives that lacked the
Apple ROM's.
We are talking m68k era machines here, young friend, notz newfangled
contraptions like your PowerPC 8500, which doesn't even sport a proper
Nubus(tm). ;)
With the advent of (cheap, slow) IDE drives in the 630 /150 / 190 machines,
Apple shipped a new formatting tool that was less restrictive.
Until then, if you wanted to use a non-Apple SCSI disk, you had to resort
to 3rd party tools like FWB's, or LaCie's SilverLining ($$$), know someone
with an A/UX installation (the A/UX version of the formatter did not look
at the disk manufacturer and type, true to the UNIX mantra of supplying
enough rope), or know how to patch the Apple tool.
Similar problems (actually worse, since AFAIK there was no patch) existed
with the CDROM driver.
I guess in the mid-eighties both SCSI harddrives and CDROM drives were
different enough for Apple to stay on the safe side, and later it was a
convenient lock-in, still.
hauke
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"It's never straight up and down" (DEVO)