Apple drives often have a rom change before they become apple. Sometimes
it is a sort of 'firmware' change involving stored data on track zero
which can be recoded via software.
Didn't Compaq get a class action suit and settlement because they did this
to thier IDE drives for the Deskpro series? They bought a line of Conner
drives and re-romed them so they would only work on Deskpro machines and
the controllers on the Deskpro wouldn't use any other drive?
Anyone who does something like that to a computer ought to be shot.
Regards,
Jeff
<200101100445.XAA23170_at_shuswap.gate.net>, on 01/10/01
at 12:27 AM, "Louis Schulman" <louiss_at_gate.net> said:
>OK, here is a very elementary question that has always
>stumped me. Is there any difference between an external
>SCSI hard drive made for a Mac and a generic SCSI hard
>drive? Can I hook up a Mac SCSI hard drive to some other
>computer with a SCSI interface and expect it to work (after
>formatting, of course)? What about the other way around?
>For some reason or another, I have always had the
>impression that Mac drives had something different about
>them. And, they are always marketed separately.
>Enquiring minds want to know.....
>Louis
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