--- the pickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The drivers are placed on the hard disk when the > disk is formatted. All disks > have a driver of some sort on them, no matter what > platform/OS/type of drive, > with the exception of (maybe) CD media. PCs don't use any special driver on the disk unless the PC is an older one with the 512meg, 2gig or 8gig size limit and a drive bigger than the particular limit of the specific PC's BIOS is installed. Then the PC (ab)user ;-) has to use some 3rd party util that creates a special boot sector containing a loadable BIOS patch (sorta like a Mac extention that patches over part of the ROM) to "translate" for the DOS or Windows OS. Linux has been written so that it doesn't need such a crutch on PCs with older BIOS with those size limits. I never liked using those BIOS overlay drive installers because any boot sector virus or a misused disk utility could blow away the special boot sector and your data would be toasted beyond the reach of anything but a several thousand dollar trip to a data recovery specialist. (Never happened to me, luckily!) I did have HDT 3.0.2 go so horribly wrong while attempting to make a spanned and striped set of a pair of 1gig drives that I had to low level format them using my PC before any util on the Mac would even acknowledge that the drives were there. :P Was trying it on my Power IIci. Even though the DayStar Turbo 601 has SCSI Manager 4.3 in its ROM, anything that requires it refuses to acknowledge that it is there. HDT 3.0.2 needs SM4.3 to setup any RAID array, but only tells you that AFTER it fails to set up the array and has royally fouled things up good. :P ===== http://www.junkscience.com "All the Junk that's fit to Debunk!" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
