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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: SCSI HD for MAC & PC
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.214733.14890@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 21:47:33 GMT
- References: <92344.090116AGCKK@ASUACAD.BITNET> <Af9sAWu00aw_Mw=7UI@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- In <Af9sAWu00aw_Mw=7UI@andrew.cmu.edu> Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- ><AGCKK@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
- >> Does MAC use the same type of SCSI HD as PC use ?
-
- >Not sure, but I would say that it depends on the type of scsi
- >controller the pc in question has.
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- From what I understand, the Mac generally expects a little more
- intelligence from its drives than PC's require (their controller isn't
- quite standard, apparently). What that means is that you can move Mac
- drives to a PC (given a decent controller), but you can't reliably
- move PC drives to a Mac. You would obviously, of course, have to
- reformat the drive with the new controller.
-
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