Re: IIgs newbee

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <3abb3e2d@news.iprimus.com.au>,
 "Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote:

> I'm sure there are better ways to do this, especially since you already have
> files on your ProDOS drive.
> 
> Ken Magee wrote in message <3ABC1268.2FA4CBC3@earthlink.net>...
> >Can anyone tell me how to copy the entire contents of an
> >external hard drive which is connected and running on an
> >Apple IIgs? I tried connecting it to a Power Mac 7300
> >running OS 8.6. It did not show up on the desktop like
> >current hard drives do. Do I need some kind of special
> >hardware or software?  Help--- I don't have a clue.

All Mac drives need a driver...on hard drives, this driver resides
in a special partition on the Mac hard drive.  The drive you have
on the IIGS apparently doesn't have this driver installed.

Is there a way to install it without formatting the hard drive?
Probably, but it's not something I ever experiemented with.  I
just reformatted my GS hard drive with the Adv.Disk.Util that
comes with GS/OS after running a program called Genex(?) that
extracted a Mac driver out of Adv.DIsk.Util.  This allowed me
to hook up my GS HD to my Mac later on when I wanted to make
disk images of my HD for use with Bernie ][ the Rescue.

Greg B.
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