[P1] iBook hardrives

[Joe Roberts]

Thanks!  I was using OS 8.6 before purchasing my trusty iBook, and also 
in the world of SCSI, where "Apple nationalism" was still in effect 
with regard to its storage formatting!

On Jun 27, 2004, at 9:29 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote:

>> Back in the pre-OS X days, you could only format a hard drive with
>> Apple's Drive Setup if the drive had Apple ROMs.  You had to use a
>> third-party application to format one not made by Apple.  Is the same
>> true under OS X with Disk Utility, or will it format any standard ATA
>> drive?
>
> Hasn't been for ages - certainly well before X - maybe 8.something ?
>
> Any 2.5in drive will do

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