Re: Mac Recognizing a ProDos volume

[mattack@area.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <60ve02$o91$1@europa.frii.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote:
>In article <60ustl$11n$1@nixon.area.com>,
>Matt Ackeret <mattack@area.com> wrote:
>>Solution: Install PC Exchange, reboot.  Make sure the device you're trying to
>>read is hooked up and turned on.  Open the PC Exchange control panel.
>>click on the Options button.  Put a checkmark next to the device that isn't
>>mounting.  Now you have to reboot again I think.
>>
>>Your device will *finally* show up on the desktop.
>
>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

Umm, I'm not talking about *reformatting* drives, I'm talking about *EXISTING*
ProDOS partitions.

>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.

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.
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