[X-Newbies] SATA Drives

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 5:08 PM +0000 12/31/05, Chris Walker wrote:
>Can someone confirm that the SATA drives used in Macs are identical to
>those found in PCs?  The reason I ask is that my local Mac dealer wants
>£150UK for a 160Gb Seagate.

Some Seagates need to have a particular feature 
-- SSC (Spread Spectrum Clocking) -- turned off 
before they will work in the Mac. Contact Seagate 
for more...
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