Re: Partitions

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <1ebkftg.1nookgy35pd3kN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>, 
dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > That message just means that ADU has not found an Apple ROM in your 
> > hard
> > drive (meaning that the hard drive is not an Apple brand).  Back in 
> > those
> > days, Apple didn't want third party drives on the Mac thus they tried 
> > hard
> > to prevent users from doing so.
> 
> Not really.  It was a more a case of "we don't want you to use _our_
> device driver with a third-party drive, since we haven't tested it and
> can't guarantee it will work".
> 
> This was basically paranoia on Apple's part, since their driver didn't
> do anything fancy and it works fine with 90% of the SCSI hard drives out
> there.

I think eventually it did get down to a little bit more than paranoia.
I've heard some of Apple's tech support calls (they're floating around
the net in various formats) where people would call in and expect Apple
to provide full support on third party programs and peripherals.  And
some of the people would get quite upset when no one at Apple would
know what was going on with their program/hardware.

It'd be much easier on the techs to be able to ask a question like:

Tech:  What did you use to format your Seagate hard drive with if it
isn't an Apple drive?

Caller:  FWB Hard Disk Toolkit

Tech:  Well, then you can call FWB at (whatever number) or Seagate at
(whatever number).

Greg B.
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