Re: Reading a PRODOS ZIP disk with a Mac

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

Perhaps the problem is that the Mac zip driver is trying to load it,
rather than a standard scsi driver? I had boundless problems with prodos
formatted zips, forcing me to disable the iomega driver and manually load
it with silverlining everytime I wanted to mount it in the finder (and
silverlining would bitch about partition data needing to be updated)

A side question though...actually, two.
One, when you format something to the maximum PD volume size (32mb,
right?) on an older (say, IIe or something with older ProDOS) machine,
does it have the sense to just mark out the 'extra', or does it format it
in a way that when you try to, say, mount it on a mac, it gets all
confused because of the 'extra' space afterwards? I saw something like
this happen with an old, old PC HD and driver, but I wondered...

Secondly, has anyone out there patched the MacOS ProDOS filesystem
extension (be it in ProDOS File System or PC Exchange 2.x, although PC-E
2.x would be preferable) to support spaces in filenames and such? I'm
having soooo many problems with GEOS when I try to do anything on the mac
side (like, for instance, I have a dead copy of geos stuck on a zip...I
can't remove it from anything but GEOS because of the spaces and such in
the name. If I boot a GEOS disk and mount the disk, it informs me that I
can't mess with GEOS system files...and I don't want to just format the
disk cause there's tons of other stuff on it. I started to do manual block
editing to convert spaces to periods, but that's really quite tedious on a
large volume and many things will also internally contain references to
the names as well (like the kernal for instance)....sigh.
Any help here?