On Aug 3, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Aug 2, 2005, at 5:56 PM, GDB-B&W-X.3.9 wrote:
Trust me, as I have been working with/on these little demons since
1980 (that's 25 years for those of you with a public school
education), cable select has been around since the old MFM/RLL PC HD
days. A special cable was required so that drives would be
recognized differently on the same controller. When IDE/ATA drives
came along, CS was left as an option, but no one used it because of
the problems it led to in the PC world.
The problems, aside from early drives that simply didn't play well
together, is that the cable needed cost a few cents more.
We've been getting PC's (Gateways and Dells) with their drives set for
cable select for five, seven years now. Drives come from the factory
jumpered to CS.
I see, so Dell and Gateways are the example you are using for superior
PC technology? Give us a break Bruce, I've seen you make fun of them
so often on this list it's not funny!
The split cable people are talking about was never used for HDD's, it
was how floppy drives were set up. Perhaps some MFM controllers had
split cables, but it's been too long since I've seen an MFM drive.
The point was that it takes a special cable to use the Cable Select
jumper for the drives.
Apple has used IDE drives in their systems since 1994: the Performa
630 and Powerbook 150, both introduced in July 1994, used IDE drives.
Public school graduate and proud of it, I can even count to 11 with my
shoes on and 21 while keeping my pants on.
Now there is an accomplishment that one can be very proud of! 8^)
--
Bruce Johnson
Someone else mentioned SATA being the new technology and that may well
be. I just thought it odd that Apple did not learn much from the
mistakes of the PC makers. You have to admit, following the lead of
Dell and Gateway is not something for Apple to be proud of.
Just a message from Doug...
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