Re: Mac Recognizing a ProDos volume

[oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland)]

>Subject: Mac Recognizing a ProDos volume
>From: Daryl Morgan <dcm@s2.sonnet.com>

>I have taken the SCSI ProDos hard drive (Quantum 105) from my trusty
>IIgs and hooked it up to my Mac 6300CD running System 7.5.3. All I want
>to do is get the Mac to recognize that the Quantum exists and put an
>icon on the desktop for it. I have tried everything I can think of to no
>avail.

>I have a little SCSI utility called Mt. Everything which shows the
>Quantum in the SCSI chain, and even shows the ProDos partitions on it,
>but will not mount it.

>I would think PC exchange would take care of this. PC and Mac floppies
>appear on the desktop as expected. 

>I'm a little beyond my knowledge level here. Can anyone help me? Thanks!

My guess as to your problem would be that the drive has been formatted on
an Apple II and that there is no MAC driver partition on it. The Apple II's use
ROM on their SCSI card to handle this but a MAC needs a driver on the drive.
There is a program for the GS that patches the formatting code to install a
generic MAC driver on a drive when it is formatted. I have use it and have not
had any problems with those drives being recognized bt the MACs I have.

Owen Aaland