Re: Why Macs need disk drivers. Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-03 Thread mart
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Re: Why Macs need disk drivers. Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-03 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I spent alot more time than that locating the Silverlining which now apparently has me all screwed up. I usually carpet bomb hard disks with weird drivers. I put them in the tray, connect the wires and then start up from a floppy with Lido or the Micronet Utility (the patched hdsc is also an

Re: Why Macs need disk drivers. Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-03 Thread william ahearn
Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- william ahearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He's educated all of us. Stick around. The best is yet to come . . . It is? Well, maybe not. But one can always hope . . . -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Why Macs need disk drivers. Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The Mac uses disk drivers because the ROM in the Mac doesn't know how to talk directly to a whole bunch of different hard drives with all sorts of different configurations of cylinders, heads and sectors. 1984 was in the days before PC hard drive controllers could autodetect the drive paramaters

Re: Why Macs need disk drivers. Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-02 Thread Visionary
Gregg: Thanks so much for this note. Many have chimed in with potentially useful information about how to solve my immediate problem, but here you have educated me on the ways of Macdom. The Mac uses disk drivers because the ROM in the Mac doesn't know how to talk directly to a whole bunch

Re: Why Macs need disk drivers. Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-02 Thread william ahearn
Visionary wrote: Gregg: Thanks so much for this note. Many have chimed in with potentially useful information about how to solve my immediate problem, but here you have educated me on the ways of Macdom. He's educated all of us. Stick around. The best is yet to come . . . -- Vintage