Re: Make bootable IIgs disks on a Mac?

[TheFlash@fast.net (Barry Allen)]

In article <c4eg7.47223$K6.18112177@news2>, "william strutts"
<wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:


> >
> But its not PC Exchange you want. You will want the file system
> extensions for ProDOS and MSDOS installed.  PC Exchange
> is just a control panel version of Apple File Exchange.


Actually William, you do. At least you do need it for MS DOS files. I just
performed an experiment with the IIsi:

With PC Exchange enabled, when you put in a DOS formatted disk, it mounts
it and gives it a little "PC" icon. With PC Exchange disabled, you plop a
DOS formatted disk in the drive and it asks if you want to initialize it
and DOS format is *not* an option. Only ProDOS and HFS. So PC Exchange *has
to be present* to recognize, mount, format and work with DOS formatted
floppies.

ProDOS has a translator in the extensions folder so we know why that works,
but I have the "Foreign File Access" extension disabled (just guessing that
might be the translator for DOS among other things) and PC Exchange works
just fine, and there is no stand-alone MS DOS file system translator, so PC
Exchange must do it all.

Now that I think about it "Foreign File Access" must have to do with older
CD ROM formats?

Barry Allen