Re: PC SCSI Drives compatible with Mac?

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From: Steve Kanefsky
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 00:00

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In article <3rk7ej$81r@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>,
Peter Naylor <e4315555@student.uq.edu.au> wrote:
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>What exactly is an "Apple" drive?  As far as I know they used standard old 
>SCSI drives... Quantum is common.  The prep software should work with all 
>drives shouldn't it?  

Apple purchases enough drives that they can get the OEM (Quantum, Conner,
IBM, Seagate, or whoever) to customize the ROMs on the drive a little
bit so that the Apple formatting software can detect whether the drive
is an "Apple" drive or not, and refuse to format any non-"Apple" drives.

--
Steve Kanefsky

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From: kanefsky@datamagic.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Subject: Re: PC SCSI Drives compatible with Mac?
Date: 1995/06/14
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