Thats a rather strange assumption to make that one would only be connecting new drives to an ata card. Surely the market for these cards is for older machines such as the biege G3's, and any newer machines using the ata 133 cards... such cards are usually add ons after purchase of the main machine, which would require a full reformat. I suppose it makes it easier for the card developers to just provide for working off new hard drives. Interesting though.
Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 1:27 PM Subject: Re: ATA pci card boot problems > > In a message dated 7/8/02 1:07:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Although it might appear "easy" to write a transition tool, this is > complicated by the various versions of Drive Setup writing a different number > of hidden partitions. > > So, the card manufacturers, which all copied the firmware concept probably > originated by FirmTek on the ProMax TurboMax UATA/33 card, apparently decided > that this reality would not be addressed, and that it would be presumed that > any drives attached to the UATA card would be new ones, which had never been > used on an internal EIDE/UATA bus before. > > One good thing to come of this: a drive which was formatted on, say, a ProMax > TurboMax UATA/33 card, will work on a competitor's UATA card without > requiring re-initialization. > > -- > G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! > <http://www.applelinks.com> > > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
