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Re: Hard drives (Was re: QC)
- Subject: Re: Hard drives (Was re: QC)
- From: david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
- Date: 14 Feb 1995 10:14:03 +1100
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
- References: <2128.UUL1.3#25274@ace.com> <bc28578@pro-dan>
vmbb!pro-newton!pro-dan!danb (Dan Brown) writes:
> It's perfectly cool to use any SCSI HD. There's no such thing as
>"Mac SCSI" or "IBM SCSI", it only refers to which machine the drive was
>marketed for.
Not quite - the early Mac SCSI implementation (I think only the Mac Plus) took
some liberties with the spec. I have a Western Digital drive which has a
jumper to select Apple SCSI instead of standard SCSI-2.
A Mac SCSI drive can mean a drive which has had its firmware modified to get
around the problem and work on all SCSI equipped Macs.
These days this is becoming less & less of an issue.
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David Wilson Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia david@cs.uow.edu.au