Re: Help: ADU and sharing a hard drive between a mac and 2gs

[goble@kin.on.net (David. E. Goble)]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 02:19:40 +1200, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David
Empson) wrote:
>
>Is this a "normal" Quantum, or an Apple re-branded Quantum?  (It would
>be an Apple one if it was originally supplied as an internal drive in a
>Mac, otherwise it is probably a normal one.)
>
I assume it is a normal one. Got it as an external new, especially for
the 2gs.
>
>What driver software are you attempting to use on the Mac?
>(Possibilities include Apple HDSC Setup, Drive Setup, or third party
>drivers such as HDT or Silverlining.)
>
I used Apple HD SC Setup System 7.5 Update 2.0 patched with a program
patch I got from someone on this or a mac newsgroup. I needed the
patch so it would recognise the drive.
>
>This should be possible.  The main requirement is that the first
>partition on the drive must be ProDOS, so the Apple II can boot.  The
>Mac should be able to recognise and boot from any HFS partition on the
>drive.
>
Right, ok, I shall try it.
>
>In fact, if you partition a drive with recent versions of Advanced Disk
>Utility (System 6.0 and later, I think), it creates four 16K partitions
>of this type.  If the drive is Apple branded then it will also put the
>standard Apple driver into one of these partitions.  It doesn't do this
>for a third party drive unless you do some extra setup.
>
Problem is that the new version of ADU will not partition the drive :<
>
One problem you might run into with recent Mac drivers is that they
use
>
>Hm.  Can you still partition it with older versions?  I don't know of
>any reason why ADU would fail to partition the drive.  There could be a
>problem with the number of partitions, or attempting to avoid
>overwriting something.
>
>Try this: 
>
>- Go into the Partitioning section of ADU.
>- Remove all of the partitions.
>- Add a single partition filling the entire drive.
>- Partition the drive.
>
>If this fails, then I'm stumped.
>
Yes the old version of ADU works and yep tried one, two partitions.
>
>This is probably the APPLE_DRIVER43 partition, which leads me to suspect
>you are using Drive Setup to partition the drive on the Mac.
>
>Doing the partitioning on the IIgs would be the best solution.  Failing
>that, a third party driver on the Mac might be more successful (as long
>as it can avoid writing a SCSI Manager 4.3 driver).  You probably can't
>use Apple HDSC Setup, since it only recognises Apple branded drives
>(though it might be possible to patch it to recognise your Quantum
>drive).
>
That is how I did get it to recognise it, by patching it.

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