Re: Mac Recognizing a ProDos volume

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <343123FF.662C@s2.sonnet.com>,
Daryl Morgan  <DCM@S2.SONNET.COM> wrote:
>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. 

It's most likely because the driver software you're using doesn't recognize
the ProDOS partitions as disk volumes. Most assume that only partitions with
the name APPLE_HFS are valid disk volumes. Probably the only way to make it
work is to reformat the disk on the Mac. I highly recommend doing so if you
ever want to use a drive on a Mac. You'll want to make sure that the driver
which the formatter installs recognizes non HFS partitions.

If you only want to copy files from the Mac to the IIgs' hard disk, I'd
suggest using file sharing as the easiest way. There's no real reason to
want to mount ProDOS volumes on a Mac if you have a IIgs, since you can
use HFS more easily. ProDOS volumes can't be optimized or maintained on
a Mac, so there is no useful reason to use 'em there. 
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com