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

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

> > 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.
>
> Not having a 580 to test it with I can't really say. However Drive Setup
on
> more
> recent Macs will format and partition an ide drive into One Mac and one
ProDOS
>
> partition. It only requires that the ide drive not be the boot drive and
that
> you're
> setting the ProDOS partition at 32mb or less. I just used Drive Setup
version
> 2.0.3 to do that with a 4gb ide drive. I don't know if that's the
situation is
> with
> earlier versions

It requires that the IDE drive not be the boot drive?  That seems odd - I'd
think it would be OK if the ProDOS partition followed the HFS one, would it
not (on the boot drive, I mean)?

Rodney