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).
>

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