Re: [WinMac] Re Apple Hard Drives

Jeff Thorstad(thorstadj[at]macconnect.com)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:31:04 -0600

>So I've either gotten extraordinarily lucky, and nailed 4 of 5 Apple
>drives in
>a random sampling (which could mean that 80% of all SCSI drives out there are
>Apple drives) or HD Setup isn't _that_ picky.
>
>As for _why_ Apple only supported specific drives...until last year they were
>giving free tech support on Apple systems...at least this way they had a
>handle on the drives they might be working with.

HD Setup is not very picky about SCSI drives since probably your 80% were
all made for Macs. And there were fewer companies actually making drives.
Apple's software is picky about IDE, though. And Apple has always had a
short list, like NT now has, of hardware. For plug n play capability.

Jeff T
thorstadj@macconnect.com

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