On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Al Poulin wrote: > >> Do some new external drives have drivers that will not work on Macs at >> all or with Macs running older versions of OS X? Or do their written >> minimum requirements refer only to applications that people can do >> without? > > No external drive now shipping needs Mac drivers, and they're almost > universally formatted as FAT32, which the Mac reads and writes just > fine. > > Actually no USB or Firewire drive that EVER shipped needed Mac > drivers, so long as USB or FW support was loaded, from OS 8.6 on, > possibly earlier. > > Most often what's on the CDs is some backup program or Windows 98 > drivers. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > >
Pay attention to Western Digital firewire drives. Not all WD firewire drives are bootable - ESPECIALLY on PPC machines. There is a link on the WD website that lists which drives are not bootable and the specifics. However, I cannot remember where it is on their website. I believe this was posted recently on this list. Good luck - Marty --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
