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At 2:00 PM -0700 1/8/03, Pat LaVarre wrote:
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I get issues only otherwise e.g. when I try to speak thru BIOS, Linux, Windows, Mac, etc. The only BIOS troubles I've seen are with BIOS designed without anticipating that HDD's grow larger every year. Elsewhere the troubles are more complex e.g. Win flavours vary in how easily addressed is the Scsi to Ata translation layer. Win NT/2K/XP is pretty good here, Win life was not so good before.
Pat,
I have no way to know about any other OS's, but you should have absolutely no problem accessing the last physical block of an ATA HDD on either the classic Mac OS or OS X on any Mac that shipped in the last 4-5 years.
Slow day in the office, eh? Had to do a little trolling? ;-)
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I make stuff go.
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Larry Barras
ATA CPU Software
Apple Computer Inc.
