--- dana sibera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <clip> > Only that I've seen mentioned in quite a few places > that drives that > came with compaq machines don't seem to work with > macs very succesfully > at all, and he mentions this one has a compaq part > number. Perhaps > there's something small & annoying with compaq ROMs > that makes them so > problematic with macs. Who knows.
Dunno about SCSI drives, but I did have an 8gig IDE drive that came out of a Compaq PC. The first and default ROM entry was setup to show 13 gigs. When I called up the company, (WD or Seagate, forgot which now) and the call got escalated a level, the higher up tech passed it as a warranty issue with no trouble. He said they'd seen that a lot when drives removed from Compaq computers were used in other systems. Apparently Compaq deliberately fouled the first capacity settings in the drive's ROM and programmed their computer BIOS to use the second entry by default. It didn't prevent the drive from being used in a non-Compaq PC, but it sure bollixed up drive utilities like Norton that would insist there was a "problem" because the drive was "supposed to be 13gigs", not the 8 it actually was. I was hoping they'd send me a 13gig but they sent me a new 8gig, which promptly died two weeks later so I got yet another warranty replacement that never had a problem. I hope that since the HP-Compaq merger that such silly business has stopped. ===== Say hello to Juror #49. Yep, I'm on jury duty until the end of March. Gotta call in each weekend. Fun. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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
