Re: Can a mac mount a prodos hard drive?

[Jack Countryman <jcountry@seidata.com>]

I believe the issue is whether or not the 32K mac driver partition is on
the hard drive.  At least the later versions of the Apple High Speed
SCSI disk utilities that formatted and partitioned hard drives had the
option of putting that driver on the disk.  If its there...the mac can
see the drive.  It would perhaps still need PC Exchange to read the
files?  Not all of the other formatter programs had the option to put
that driver on the hard drive?
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Paul Grammens wrote:
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> doug <---@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> > Bryan Villados wrote:
> > > To mount them, I believe you must have Apple PC Exchange installed,
> > > which comes with Macintosh System software (Mac OS) since version 7.5
> > > (7.1 had it also, but it required an additional install step).
> >
> > It should mount fine without pc exchange. I have a developer cd with a
> > prodos partition that works fine.
> >
> 
> They don't always mount. I connected a ProDos drive that works fine on my
> IIgs to my Color Classic running 7.6, didn't mount. The Mac formatter and
> SCSI probe saw it, however. Someone else had the explanation, but I forgot
> what it was... The GSOS formatter has an option to make the drive work with
> a Mac. Apparently, you have to select that option.
> -Paul