My Starmax came with a drive that was supported by Apple on the System CD 7.6. as well as the original Starmax CD. I just used it to start up. And my starmax used the Apple Driver for the CD rom, not a third party driver. So basically, Apple went out of their way and purposefully deleted my drive from the Apple software driver.
Thanks Apple Bill Barber John Christie wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 11:47 AM, The Barbers wrote: > > > It is very frustrating that I have to reinstall either the original or a > > hacked version of my CD extention when I update operating systems on my > > clone. It is simply mean-spirited on the part of Apple not to cover the > > few non-Apple CD's that were covered by their previous OS's. I feel at > > risk having a CD that will only boot on the original Starmax disk in an > > emergency. > > Motorola chose to use a third party CD Drive. For most of the cloning > period the cloners used a third party CD ROM driver, not the Apple > driver. It is up to Motorola, Umax, and the third party drive software > manufacturer to satisfy you, not Apple (unless you have Power Computing). > > Apple only put out the universal driver for a brief period of time. > Only one OS revision contained it. It was not as good as subsequent > drivers. In my experience, while you can hack the Apple driver to get a > minimum software connection, it does not work as well as the unhacked > driver with a supported drive. Why should Apple provide crippled > functionality to their customers so that clone customers could get > access to their drives when that access was originally provided by a > third party? (I wish I could remember the third party's name) Or, why > should Apple write specialized drivers for all that clone hardware when > it was always up to the cloners to support specialized hardware? > > BTW, if you have a clone you can pick up a real Mac internal drive that > is as fast or faster for tres cheap now. > > It would be nice if Apple supported more drives. But they are not > obligated to support them. They were not like Microsoft. They were not > trying to satisfy a large and varied hardware market. They were just > being the OEM for the core OS while others tacked on what they wanted in > order to differentiate. If one of those tacked on things was a cheaper > CDROM drive or a unique video card Apple is under no obligation to > support it (and neither would MS in most cases for that matter). > -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.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/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com