Re: Mac Recognizing a ProDos volume

[stever@gate.net (Steve Reeves)]

In article <611jeq$9lc$1@nixon.area.com>,
Matt Ackeret <mattack@area.com> wrote:
>In article <60ve02$o91$1@europa.frii.com>,
>Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote:
>>I never use the ProDOS volume on my IIgs' hard disk on Macs so hafta take
>>your word here. I can say for sure that the most recent versions of Apple's
>>formatter can make ProDOS volumes and do mount them at startup, making the
>>above rigmarole unnecessary. But there is the problem with the IIgs finder's
>>gagging when it sees the APPLE_DRIVER43 partition on a disk you format with
>>the new versions. Doesn't crash or anything, it just makes you "eject" the
>>driver partition since it doesn't think it's the driver partition due to
>>the name change, and of course it looks like an invalid disk volume.

There is a patch you can make to SCSIHD.DRIVER to get the IIgs to properly
ignore APPLE_DRIVER43 driver partitions.

>Umm, now I forget what the problem is, but there is ALSO a problem with
>PC Exchange (on the Mac of course) where you have to manually go in with
>a block editor and *SAY* that the partition is HFS even though it's
>really ProDOS..  I forget why this is the case -- I think it's when
>you have a multi-partitioned device (like my Syquest cartridges)..
>
>After this skankiness, then the Mac will see them fine.

Never heard that one, but I do know that PC Exchange will not recognize
ProDOS partitions unless they are strictly less than 32 MB.  (I don't
recall exactly how I partitioned my hard drive years ago, but I think
it was with ADU, and it ended up with partitions that were exactly 32
MB.  I had to shrink these by a block before I could get PC Exchange to
mount them.)

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Steve Reeves
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