Apple external SCSI drives

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Tue Jan 9 23:54:52 2001

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Louis Schulman wrote:

> 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?

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.
Received on Tue Jan 09 2001 - 23:54:52 GMT