Re: Mounting a SCSI Prodos HD on a Mac...

[Tony <tonym@tigershark.netrunner.net>]

Randy Shackelford wrote:
> 
> anomaly3@mc.net (anomaly3@mc.net) wrote:
> 
> : There is a system extension called "ProDOS File System" and what this does
> : is assist my Mac in handling ProDOS volumes - I've got my HD with a 10Mb
> : partition, and the partition shows up on the desktop underneath the HFS
> : volume, with a cool icon noting that it is an Apple II ProDOS volume. If
> : you do not have this extension in your extensions folder, it could be the
> : reason why when you mount the HD, only the HFS voulme shows up. I think the
> : extent of ProDOS support on the Mac is limited to 800K media unless the
> : aforementioned extension is installed -- you may want to give it a try. It
> : comes bundled with the IIe Startup Disk software for the LC IIe card and
> : can be found on Apple's FTP sites.
> 
> Geeminy, this is the second time someone has said this. People, the ProDOS
> extension from the //e card software is outdated and has been replaced with
> PC Exchange. But if your hard disk's device driver doesn't recognize your
> ProDOS volume as a disk volume, it won't show up no matter how many extensions
> your system has for accessing ProDOS volumes. This is the reason I've seen
> mentioned for this. My IIgs' hard disk was formatted on my Mac with Transoft
> SCSI Director, an old shareware formatter. I'm soon replacing that hard disk
> with an Apple ROM equipped Quantum which I can format with Apple's HD SC Setup.
> This I'm told will put on a device driver which can tell that partition names
> other than APPLE_HFS can be disk volumes. Ever look at the partition list on a
> Mac hard disk? Every disk volume is in a partition named APPLE_HFS. If you
> have a Mac formatted hard disk with a ProDOS volume on it, its partition name
> in the partition list is the same as the ProDOS volume's name. If a driver
> doesn't account for that, it'll ignore it just like it does APPLE_FREE and
> other partitions which it doesn't believe are disk volumes. So kindly quit
> telling me to install ProDOS file system and I'll get back to you with the
> results once I have that hard disk formatted and partitioned like I want.
> --
> Randy Shackelford
> shack@southwind.net
yeah...I usually have to use the "mount" option in FWB's HD ToolKit PE
that I have. Got that laying around? It should mount it ok. 


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