RE: Ext. HD for IIgs and Mac

[bpvh@primenet.com (Bradley P. Von Haden)]

joseph.m.barbey@uwrf.edu (Joe Barbey) wrote:

>I just bought an externall harddrive, and I'm trying to set it up
>as one HFS partition.  I would like to be able to use it on both
>my GS nad my roommate's Mac.  Unfortunately, when I go in to the
>Advanced Disk Utils on the GS, and try and partition it, it comes
>back with
>
>        Unable to load the Macintosh driver. HFS partitions
>             will not be usable on Macintosh computers.
>
>Does anyone have any idea where the 'driver' I need is?

What you need is the program "GenEx".  The program extracts the
generic MAC hard drive driver from within ADU.  Instructions are
included with the program.

I know it is available in the A2 software libraries on Genie but not
sure where else.

You should also have the patch to correct the errors in the IIgs HFS
FST.

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