However, Ruddock said, this will not be the product the company is planning to ship for the new operating system. It's all about the drivers, he said.
Drivers are also the concern for drive manufacturers.
However, this will mean that Mac users with LaCie hard drives, all of which use Silverlining as a driver, will not be able to access these drives if they adopt Mac OS X before Silverlining 6.4 is released. Full speed ahead' Dantz Development Corp. of Orinda, Calif., makes the Retrospect line of backup software and works closely with LaCie. But, as with any launch of a new operating system, there's a lot of work to be done. However, he added, issues remain, particularly around how much support Apple will provide for HP's laser printer descriptions. However, he said HP had already been focusing on Mac OS X drivers.