Re: Help: Using an Apple IIGs Hard disk HFS partition for MAC SE30 BOOT disk?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3580869c.0@duster.adelaide.on.net>,
David. E. Goble <goble@kigateway.eastend.com.au> wrote:
>I then, using appleTalk, copied a copy of system 7 on to the
>partition. Then connected the hard disk up to the Mac SE30 and booted
>up from the Mac SE30s internal system, but the external hard disk was
>not recognised. Can anyone help?

   Despite whining from certain Mac worshippers here, the Mac DOES
have an *continuing* idiotic refusal to deal with HDs that do not have
Macintosh driver partitions on them. [If Apple had a clue about making
their machines usable, they'd have made such driver partitions
*optional*, but the Dilbertian management would rather simply have you
"think brainwashed"]

   You're either going to need to fork over $$$ for a 3rd party Mac
SCSI toolkit that does it right (by providing those optional drivers
when the OS "can't"), format that disk on a Mac, or force a driver
partition onto the drive (hope you left space). Or, you can try and
push Apple out of their proprietary bull**** (why you need a patch
program to make Apple's formatting software talk to non-Apple devices
should be grounds enough to see that Apple is just as much the
money-grubbing losers as MS)... like that'll happen anytime soon.

Nathan Mates

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