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Mac Formatted (HFS) Disks on Apple2gs
Is the Apple IIgs HFS FST able to read media that is formatted on a
Mac or via a PC utility that formats Mac media?
I used a Win95 utility called MacOpener to HFS format a Bernoulli
150MB cartridge on my PC in order to transfer files to my IIgs. The
Apple IIgs didn't even seem to notice that it was in the drive. Then
I tried formatting an HFS cartridge on my Apple IIgs to read via
MacOpener on my PC, MacOpener crashed horribly. I took the drive to a
friend's house to test it on his Mac and we didn't have any problems
reading from or writing to the cartridge formatted with MacOpener.
Unfortunately I didn't take the Apple IIgs formatted HFS cart, so I
didn't test that (wasn't thinking). My friend does NOT live nearby,
so going back isn't such an easy option.
Has anyone tried this? Or do I need an update, utility, or something
else?
Here's my system info:
My IIgs system is set up as follows:
ROM 1 Apple IIgs.
3.5" Apple drive
2- 5.25" floppy drives (1 Apple and 1 Mitac)
RamFAST v3.01f (got this in June '96)
105MB Toshiba SCSI HDD
Toshiba SCSI 1x CD-ROM drive
150MB Bernoulli Box cartridge drive
4MB RAM in an OctoRAM memory board.
TransWarp GS accelerator.
PCTransporter
Stereo Sound Card.
GS/OS system 6.0.1 and using ProSel.
My PC (bare facts):
Dex AMD 5x86/133MHz
32MB RAM
150MB Bernoulli Box cartridge drive (yes, I have 2)
Windows 95
MacOpener v2.0
Thanks for any help.