Re: Odd request for partitioning help (Mac LC 580, internal IDE HD, Apple IIe card)

["Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com>]

> > I have a dilemma.
> >
> > I have the Apple IIe card for the LC.  It has the ability to use Apple
HD SC
> > Setup to create a ProDOS partition (for use by the Apple IIe) on your
LC's
> > SCSI hard drive.
> >
> > Oops.  The LC 580 doesn't have a SCSI hard drive.  It's IDE.
> >
> > Short of purchasing an external SCSI hard drive, does anyone know of a
way
> > of doing the same thing Apple HD SC Setup does on an IDE drive?
(Obviously
> > Drive Setup will work with the IDE drive, but it doesn't allow any sort
of
> > partitioning, unless someone knows about an easter egg I'm not familiar
> > with.
>
> I do recall partitioning an ide hard drive some time back but I don't
recall
> whether I used Drive Setup or not. In any case Drive Setup won't
Initialize or
> partition the drive you booted off. You might try booting off a CD or
Floppy
> and then trying Drive Setup.

You can easily partition with Drive Setup, but only HFS/HFS+, not ProDOS.
That requires (as far as I can tell) Apple HD SC Setup, which only works
with SCSI.

Rodney