TITLE
    Drive Setup: No ATA driver v3.x for 68K Macs
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Modified: 		30710
8/20/98
8/20/98
TOPIC

    I have a Macintosh LC 630 with an internal IDE (ATA) 350 MB hard disk. When I installed Mac OS 8.0, I updated my hard disk drivers. After choosing Get Info in the Finder on the hard drive, I noticed the ATA driver was version 1.12 as the Get Info window shows as (ATA 0, v1.12).

    Recently, I downloaded Drive Setup 1.5 to update to the latest ATA hard disk drivers. After updating my hard disk drivers, I notice I still had ATA driver version 1.12. On my friend's Power Macintosh G3 desktop computer, Drive Setup 1.5 updates his hard disk driver to version as the Get Info window shows as (ATA Bus 0 Dev 0, v3.1.0).

DISCUSSION

    Drive Setup 1.0.5 and later will install ATA driver version 1.12 as this was the last driver qualified and tested for non-Power Macintosh computers with ATA hard disks. Users with non-Power Macintosh computers do not need to update beyond ATA driver version 1.12.

Document Information
Product Area: Apple Software
Category: Utility Software
Sub Category: Hard Disk Setup Software

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