Re: 2GS Hard Drive

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jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt) wrote:

>> Guys: the drive he is talking about is an HD20: an early Mac HD DOES plug 
>> into the FLOPPY port!  It was a stop-gap that Apple came up with in the SE,
+ 
>> days.  I got one at Goodwill too.  I would also like to know how to format 
>> this puppy for // usage if anyone knows
>
>It could be that the hard drive is formatted as HFS, and the GS is
>suspecting ProDOS. If it isn't that, the hard drive could have been
>formatted as MFS.

Not quite.  The IIGS can use HFS, so that's not the problem
(it can't boot from an HFS volume, but it can format, read,
and write to one).  The main partitions of my 1GB hard drive
are HFS. It would be a nightmare if I had to only use ProDOS.

The real reason the floppy port drive can't be used on the
IIGS is that it is not compatible with the IIGS floppy port.