Phipli
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So, I'm confused. When I was a kid, we used to talk about Apple ROM'd Hard Disks and CD Drives... and you saw drives with the little red apple logo on them, and told each other "oh, that one has the Apple ROM"... but with time, we realised it was nonsense, and infact Apple just maintained a whitelist in the CD driver / disk formatting tools, meaning that if you got an OEM (i.e. non-apple) version of the same Matsushita, Seagate or Quantum drive, it worked exactly the same.
What is confusing me is I'm still seeing people refer to Apple ROM'd drives, for example @volvo242gt here :
Is there something about the controller board that he is mentioning that I've overlooked? What extra does it do?
I'm absolutely certain that all the apple formatting tools do is check the disk manufacturer and part number against a whitelist... because the whitelist is just a list of resources inside Drive Setup and the older SCSI formatting tool.
I am also certain that "non-apple" drives that are on that list work just fine, because I bought a bunch of Segates that fit one of the more broad Segate wildcard disk series in said white list.
I'm once again doubting what I thought I knew for certain. Because I've seen it mentioned multiple times without being challenged in the recent past. What are your thoughts @volvo242gt? What differences have you noticed? Can they be explained in another way? What have I missed!
What is confusing me is I'm still seeing people refer to Apple ROM'd drives, for example @volvo242gt here :
Had a 230MB Quantum that would make a short "skrrrk" sound, then sit there, spinning away. Turned out that the board had become fried. Replaced it with another board, and the drive works again. Now is an Apple ROM'ed 230MB, too.
Is there something about the controller board that he is mentioning that I've overlooked? What extra does it do?
I'm absolutely certain that all the apple formatting tools do is check the disk manufacturer and part number against a whitelist... because the whitelist is just a list of resources inside Drive Setup and the older SCSI formatting tool.
I am also certain that "non-apple" drives that are on that list work just fine, because I bought a bunch of Segates that fit one of the more broad Segate wildcard disk series in said white list.
I'm once again doubting what I thought I knew for certain. Because I've seen it mentioned multiple times without being challenged in the recent past. What are your thoughts @volvo242gt? What differences have you noticed? Can they be explained in another way? What have I missed!
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