I thought this was an interesting discovery, so I figured some of you folks might like to know.
For ages I've used SCSI-IDE and SCSI-IDE-SATA adapters on various m68k Macs. I just had a 2 TB drive fail in a Quadra 610 so I decided to replace it. One of the spare drives I have lying around is a 640 gig Apple SATA hard drive from a Mac Pro. Normally, I'd have to use the patched Drive Setup program to first initialize, then the Apple HD SC Setup program from A/UX to create A/UX partitions for NetBSD, then the non-patched Drive Setup to update the driver to make it bootable.
This time, because it has the little Apple logo on the drive, I decided to try the unpatched Drive Setup program. It worked! Even old m68k Macs will see an Apple firmware SATA drive on a SCSI bus. Neat!
For ages I've used SCSI-IDE and SCSI-IDE-SATA adapters on various m68k Macs. I just had a 2 TB drive fail in a Quadra 610 so I decided to replace it. One of the spare drives I have lying around is a 640 gig Apple SATA hard drive from a Mac Pro. Normally, I'd have to use the patched Drive Setup program to first initialize, then the Apple HD SC Setup program from A/UX to create A/UX partitions for NetBSD, then the non-patched Drive Setup to update the driver to make it bootable.
This time, because it has the little Apple logo on the drive, I decided to try the unpatched Drive Setup program. It worked! Even old m68k Macs will see an Apple firmware SATA drive on a SCSI bus. Neat!