Re: More Questions from a New IIgs User

[nobody@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner)]

In article
<jonINTERNETrelayCHAT-1001002237440001@nn-157-22-180-219.napanet.net>,
jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt) wrote:

> How can I hook up a simple network between the IIgs and a Mac Plus so that
> the IIgs can use the hard drive on the Mac Plus? Do I need a ProDOS boot
> disk or something to do that (I don't have one)? Do I need to format
> something on the hard drive as ProDOS? Do I need to completely reinstall
> the MacOS on the Mac Plus and use System 7.5 with PC Exchange?
> 
> I tried connecting my IIgs and my other Mac (a Quadra 700) together with
> AppleTalk. I got the Quadra to file share, but the IIgs didn't do anything
> (I did have Slot 1, Slot 7, and StartUp set to AppleTalk on the IIgs). Did
> I need to format something on _that_ hard drive as ProDOS? I did it with
> PhoneNet connectors. Maybe I should use a regular printer cable
> instead....
 
The file sharing will work with MacOS 7.0+, you just need to make sure
you install the appropriate software on the IIGS.  It's not installed as
a standard option.  Phonenet cable should work just great...I use a 
mixture of Apple's localtalk and phonenet on my network.  And there is
nothing special on the Mac end that you need to do other than enable
file sharing and make sure that the hard drive you want share has been
shared...just because file sharing it turned on, doesn't mean that any
and all drive are automatically shared.  Select the drive(s) and under
file File menu on the Mac should be an option called sharing.  You don't
need to format anything as ProDOS on the Mac for generic file sharing,
the IIGS will access any HFS/HFS+ partitions just fine.

If you have any more questions, just ask, there should be a few people
here who could help you out....
 
> I heard somebody tried to connect a Mac Plus hard drive to the floppy
> port, and didn't get it to work because the floppy port doesn't support
> it. Shortly after, I saw a post that said someone had successfully
> connected a HD20 (???) to the IIgs's floppy port. If I read that second
> post right, then how exactly _do_ I get the IIgs to boot up from the hard
> drive in the floppy port?

There's two different HD20 drives...one which runs off of the floppy port
and one that runs off of the SCSI port.  So they probably hooked up a SCSI
variant of that drive.

Greg B.
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