Re: Make bootable IIgs disks on a Mac?

[TheFlash@fast.net (Barry Allen)]

In article <cdTf7.43653$K6.17158409@news2>, "william strutts"
<wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:


> 
> Yes. But System 7.5 and above can mount the disk as a foreign
> file system volume.  It can format them when you insert blank
> diskettes.

Yes, and so can 7.1. This ability didn't start with 7.5.x.

System 7.1 (not 7.0.1) came with the Control Panel called PC Exchange (just
like 7.5.x) that does just as you describe. It also has an Extension that
is named ProDOS File System in the System folder. My guess is that this
Extension was incorporated into something else in later OS versions,
because it's not in 7.5.x. But it works just the same.

I just used it today on the little IIsi to make an 800k ProDOS disk. After
it formats the disk the icon changes from a plain disk icon to an icon with
the little "II" symbol on it, just like 7.5.x. If it's a DSDD disk you can
do 800K Mac, 800K ProDOS or 720K MS-DOS formats. If it's a DSHD you can do
Mac 1.4, ProDOS 1.4 or MS-DOS 1.4 disks. If you select MS-DOS, after it
formats it, the icon changes to one with "PC" on it. Whichever native disk
you throw in the drive, 7.1 reads it and mounts it with the appropriate
icon.

BTW, 7.0.1 can do it too if you put the Control Panel called PC Exchange
and the Extension ProDOS File System in the System folder and restart.

> Apple File Exchange only seemed
> to work with text files and other file types that the Apple knew
> about. I didn't find it too useful and it didn't seem to want to
> transfer the files that I wanted right.

I used it *once*. Then trashed it.

> I have found that system
> 7.5 is much better at is than the earlier systems.

And now you know that 7.1 was doing it before 7.5 was ever written.

Barry Allen