Re: mounting a Prodos hard rive on a Power PC

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes...

>Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>>     Will FWB ToolKit install the proper driver on an existing ProDOS
>> or HFS partition?
> 
>The driver is not installed inside a partition - it needs a separate
>partition of its own.
> 
>The question is: what was used to partition the IIgs drive?

    The RamFAST's built-in firmware utilities.

>To be on the safe side, I'd strongly suggest making a backup copy of the
>drive on the IIgs, before trying to run Mac sofwtware to add a driver.
>It wouldn't take much to accidentally wipe the ProDOS partitions.
>  
>I'd also recommend AppleTalk as a much safer option.

    Yep, I don't want to risk wipping any of my ProDOS partitions
just to see if I can get the Macintosh Plus to recognize the SCSI
hardrive. I'll stick to using an AppleTalk network, or better yet,
pull the old/slow 20 MB Seagate mechanism and replace it with a
40-80 MB drive for a few dollars (first I would like to find a
SCSI drive of any size for my second IIgs system though). :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca