From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 06:11:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B098D16A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 06:11:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shurd@sasktel.net) Received: from misav03.sasknet.sk.ca (misav03.sasknet.sk.ca [142.165.20.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C03943D48 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 06:11:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shurd@sasktel.net) Received: from thyme.sasktel.net ([142.165.20.198]) by misav03 with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:11:37 -0600 Received: from [192.168.0.193] (hssx-yktn-59-202.sasknet.sk.ca [142.165.59.202]) by thyme.sasktel.net (SaskTel eMessaging Service) with ESMTPA id <0IHR00A9C57C3N@thyme.sasktel.net> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:11:37 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:06:20 -0600 From: Stephen Hurd In-reply-to: To: David Kelly Message-id: <42A68ADC.9040900@sasktel.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050516 References: <42A4FD3F.70407@pacific.net.sg> <44y89mb1e0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050607175303.GA96525@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <42A62D8D.2020100@digitalarcadia.net> <30399E44-07C0-4F3B-9B1C-9F4B2E020E9C@HiWAAY.net> <42A6617A.5010908@sasktel.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple moving to x86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 06:11:38 -0000 David Kelly wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote: > >> David Kelly wrote: >> >> >>> Think possibly I didn't speak clearly enough. Apple is not >>> *adding* commodity-ness to their product line. Thinking about it >>> I'd bet part of the deal with Intel is a special crypto block or >>> similar in the CPU uniquely identifying it as an Apple Blessed >>> CPU. Apple does this very thing with disk drives. Originally Apple >>> SCSI drivers would only format and configure Apple-blessed drives. >>> Currently the same thing holds true for internal CD/DVD drives. >>> But put the same non-Apple drive on Firewire and MacOS is happy >>> with it. >>> >> >> You must be dealing with an older "originally" than I. I've >> replaced the 40MB HD in an SE/30 with a 700-oddMB IBM one from a PS/ >> 2 with no issues. Ditto for a pair of uh... *goes and looks* IIci >> macs. Are we talking way back when Apple didn't use standard SCSI-1 >> (Which, I think is because there was no formal standard)? May as >> well complain that you couldn't replace the "non-standard" 800k >> floppy with a "standard" 720k one. > > > No, "Apple SC Setup" would not do a non-Apple SCSI drive. This might > have changed with MacOS 9. MacOS X has never complained about any IDE > HD I have tried. I never had a problem and was using either System 6 or System 7 (Never could justify shelling out for an OS for them) I don't remember *exactly* how I did it, but since they didn't have Internet connectivity at the time, nor a modem, I must have used stuff that came with the system. Also, I don't remember any difficulties at all. Not to say I didn't have any at all, this was years ago, but since this was among the very first things I ever did with my very own Mac, I believe I would remember having issues such as "cannot partition the drive". The larger SCSI HDs still persist in being the only drive in those systems. I also remember at work having gobs of external SCSI HDs hanging off of almost every Mac... very few of which had the Apple of happiness on the front. I suppose if I got *really* curious, I could fire 'em up and take a peek. I doubt I will though.