Dana Collins wrote:
Dana, coming from extensive PC experience and virtually no Mac experience, the biggest item I have seen is the Mac's trouble recognizing IDE/ATA drives, especially when/if you do a lot of drive swapping. Early experiences with PC's when they first started using IDE drives were similar. The problem is the number if different drive manufacturers and the fact that the standard is so loose you could drive a truck through it! Early on with PC's it was necessary to manually set up the drive pararmeters in CMOS (PRAM) so that the computer would know what it was. The earliest ones had to be installed using an old outdated HD parameter chart that was designed for older MFM/RLL type hard drives. You just had to pick one that was close enough to what you had. A user definable setup choice made this much easier and finally PC's were able to detect the drive so no setup was needed. It seems to me that Apple came to this stage of trying to determine the drive type on it's own and earlier firmware used to do this is not as good as it could be. I only have beige G3 to base this on and I'm sure the later machines do not have as much problem with swapping drives and recognizing them for what the really are. Once they are setup and working properly (and the PRAM battery is good) they seem to be very stable. It's just when you swap drives that it seems to confuse the PRAM. Okay all you "Macs forever, PC's never" guys, let the flames begin!Greetings all, Is it possible that some hard drives (ATA of course) would work w/ a beige G3 but not with a B+W? Or, pray tell, are "new world" Macs fussier about hard drives (like they are on RAM)?
I have an Apple OEM 4gig ATA drive. Installed in a beige G3 tower, I booted off an OS 9.2.1 CD: the drive mounted and responded to a low-level (zero-out) formatting w/ out a hitch.
I installed the same HD into a B+W (rev. 1 board), and also booted up in OS 9.2.1 - the HD would not mount
I took the same machine/same HD and booted off of a Jaguar CD: 1) Disk Utility saw the HD and attempted to format and/or partition, appeared to be successful, but was not really based on the results that follow (note: an error message never appeared) 2) Repair would attempt to repair the drive, but suspiciously did so way-too-fast. 3) OS X installer never saw the drive
I find this odd. Any comments? Best regards, Dana
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