Re: Apple 2 SCSI HD format compatability

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <3a5f219d.1697081@news.primenet.com>, gmezero @ gz.bomb.com 
(Bryan aka R.I.P.) wrote:

> soo... I was wondering. If I format a SCSI HD under ProDOS on my
> Enhanced //e... say, make a 20mb partition. Could I read the partition
> on any other kinds of computers? Mac? PC? ???

Mac, No.  Someone else should be able to inform you about other
computers.

On the Mac, there is a seperate driver partition for the MacOS.  This
driver loads early on and was designed to get the best possible speed
out of the SCSI drive on a Mac...they were usually specific to a
particular SCSI drive.  However, the IIGS, GS/OS and Adv.Disk.Utils 
can have a generic driver extracted from ADU, installed in the drivers
folder in the GS/OS system folder and format a hard drive that can be
mounted on a Mac.

Greg B.
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