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Article #4686Re: Mac Hard Drive Problems (Seagate)
From: Jon W{tte
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1989 22:16
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1989 22:16
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In article <22201@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes: >Apple has claimed somewhere that they make other firmware changes besides >changing the inquiry data, but I am not sure that I believe them. I can't >Does anyone know what other changes, if any, Apple has done to these >disk drives? Yes, Apple sometimes have short supply of 40 meg disks. They simply use 50 meg ones, but to prevent people like you and me (i.e. with a technical skill at least greater than epsilon) from checking different computers and buy the one with the 50-meg-formatted-as-40 drive, they change the firmware so as not to accept more than 40 meg. This I have from someone at applelink in comp.sys.mac.programmer, say maybe three months ago. That doesn't mean it comes from Apple, but it sounds plausible... -- Don't believe a word I say, I always lie.
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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
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Subject: Re: Mac Hard Drive Problems (Seagate)
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Date: 16 Sep 89 22:16:30 GMT
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