Re: ProDOS partition on MAC SCSI

[Dennis Fenton <defenton@minet.gov.mb.ca>]

Dennis Fenton wrote:
> 
> How does one make a Macintosh recognize a ProDOS partitition on a an
> external SCSI hard drive?
> 
> I have a 300 Mb external SCSI hard drive partitioned with a 32 Mb ProDOS
> partitition and the rest as an HFS Mac partition. The drive itself was not
> originally Mac but is installed in the case of an old "zero footprint"
> drive. SCSI is SCSI isn't it? I ins
> talled GS/OS 6.0.1 on the ProDOS partition by connecting the drive to my
> IIGS which has a RamFast SCSI card. I installed Mac/OS 7.0 on the HFS
> portion by connecting the drive to a Mac Plus. My ultimate goal is to use
> the drive as a server from which a str
> ing of IIGS Rom 03's will boot.
> 
> The Plus boots from the drive but does not recognize the ProDOS partition,
> nor does it recognize ProDOS 3.5" floppies. When I connect the drive to
> other Macs some recognize the ProDOS partition and floppies while others
> don't. I can't find anything throu
> gh their Control Panels or anything else to tell me why some do and some
> don't. I hope someone knows the answer to this quandary.
Thanks to all who responded. I got PCExchange from an LC475 running
System 7.5 and added it to my Control Panels folder. The ProDOS
partition and ProDOS floppies now appear on the desktop.