apple moving to x86

[Stephen Hurd]

David Kelly wrote:

>
> On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote:
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>> David Kelly wrote:
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>>
>>> 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.