Re: mounting a Prodos hard rive on a Power PC

[mewen@home.com (Michael Ewen)]

> > The question is: what was used to partition the IIgs drive?
> > 
> > If it was a recent version of Advanced Disk Utility, then it will have
> > created four 16KB partitions of type APPLE_DRIVER, marked as empty.  In
> > theory, any Mac drive setup software (Apple's Drive Setup, FWB's HDT,
> > etc.) should be able to install a driver into one of these partitions.
> > 
> > The only problems I can see are:
> > 
> > (a) The driver code may be larger than 16K, in which case the partition
> > is not big enough.  The setup software may be forced to repartition the
> > drive.
> 
> My experience with a number of Mac HD toolkits is that if they are unable
> to install a driver into a partition on the disk, they will load one into
> memory instead. I've used this with option with FWB Tools 1.6 to mount a
> ProDos volume on a Mac. You may well be able to use Norton Utilities to
> load a temporary hard disk driver.
> 
> David's advice on backing up critical data and applications before
> proceeding with anything definitely applies.
> 
> 
> Phil
> 
> -- 
> Computer Officer -- Distributed Systems Support 
> Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. 

   I've given up, sort of.  I'm taking the drive in to an Apple dealer
with a tech who actually knows IIGS's and will transfer the data for me.  
I figure this is a better option then continuing trying and doing any more
damage.  
   I have all the material backedup as of November 11, 1998, using
Prosel.  Ever since my first crash on the  IIGS I've backed up
regularly!!!!!!!
   Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and help.
Michael