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Re: Apple 2 SCSI HD format compatability



Well... while this didn't answer my question as I would have hopped
(darn). Thank-you everyone for the feedback. I'm trying to figure out
an easy and painless way to transfer a couple hundred floppies of data
over to a PC or MAC, without spending days babysitting ZModem transfers
across a null-modem cable :(

On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:19:48 +0800, Howe Family <khowe@omninet.net.au> wrote:

>In article <1en6i4p.1uoidpf1tyrnaN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>, 
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
>
>> There are some catches, however.
>> 
>> 1. The Mac requires a device driver, stored on the hard drive (in its
>> own partition) to be able to support a SCSI hard drive.  This is usually
>> placed on the drive by the Mac-based formatting/partitioning software.
>> 
>
>It is possible to use a utility like Silverling Lite from Lacie to mount 
>drives on a Mac which don't have the Mac driver on the disk. Can be very 
>handy!
>
>Kim Howe
>khowe@omninet.net.au
>New release of Arachnid coming soon
>http://www.omninet.net.au/~khowe/arachnid/index.html