alt Hacker NewsI definitely used FWB but never experienced the need for magic strings or thought FWB was required. Third party disk utilities could often recover files Apples tools could not.
I definitely used FWB but never experienced the need for magic strings or thought FWB was required. Third party disk utilities could often recover files Apples tools could not.
The user doesn't need the string the Apple software scanned the ROM of the hard drive and looked for specific vendor IDs before proceeding.
For the most part (there were EXTREMELY rare exceptions) the only strings that would pass were specific custom models of widely-available drives that were only sold to apple.
FWB did not check.
You could use ResEdit to haxxor the list:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/drvsetup.html
I cannot believe that page is still online. I first referenced it ON a PPC Mac running netscape. My flabbers are gasted.