[WinMac] Re: Apple drives

ctmurray@mmm.com
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:39:58 -0600

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The Windows-MacOS cooperation list wrote:

>Also the new Apple formatter (v1.6.1) will recognize practically everything
>except for some of the larger sized drives (over 9 gigs). For these I've
>had to use a 3rd party formatter. I don't know about v1.6.2 yet.
>
>Also, in my opinion, FWB's product has been less than stellar on occasion,
>over the period of it's life (and I have been in it since v1.0.) It's like
>the little boy with the curl, when he was good, he was very very good, and
>when he was bad, he was awful.
I recently reformatted my PowerComputing clone drive with 1.6.2 (I have
read 1.6.1 is potentially dangerous) just so that in the future I can
easily update the hard disk drivers that come with the MacOS. Each time a
new OS comes out some new disk driver comes out, but FWB was charging
money for me to upgrade my drivers. So when I updated to 8.0 I took the
risk and did not update HDToolkit and things ran fine. But for 8.5 I
wanted to be sure.

Apple keeps changing its policy on what drives are supported. According
to my Sad Mac, Bombs and other Disasters book (Ted Landau author) wrote
that the Apple drivers would not support most third party supplied hard
drives. But then I read on Ted's MacFixit.com site about updating drivers
under Drive Set-Up 1.6.2 and he mentioned all the new drives that could
be initialized. I wrote him and he pointed out that Apple had changed its
policy, and was now supporting a wider selection of SCSI drives.

Cameron T. Murray
3M Bonding Systems Division
Building 230-2E-11
St. Paul, MN 55144
612-736-9294
ctmurray@mmm.com

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