Re: apple 2 hard disk on a mac . . .

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <erik-2604952314120001@192.0.2.1>,
Erik Kloeppel <erik@hypermall.com> wrote:
>In article <3nlp74$lc1@kaa.heidelbg.ibm.com>, chk@akela.heidelbg.ibm.com
>(Christian Karpp) wrote:
>
>> Erik Kloeppel (erik@hypermall.com) wrote:
>[snip]
> 
>> I've never tried this but it works perfect with ProDOS 3.5" disks:
>> there's a system extension called somewhat with prodos in it's name which
>> enabled the mac finder to mount any ProDOS disk straight on the desktop.
>> no data convert etc. needed. as I said, I've never tried it with any other
>> ProDOS media than 3.5" disks, but I can't see why it shouldn't work.
>> if you can't find that extension, drop me an email and I'll mail you a
>> HQX'ed copy of it...
>> 
>3.5 disks are different from the hard drives.. different drivers and all..
>it works fine for 3.5 and even CD-ROM, but I flatly can NOT mount a Prodos
>Hard drive.

You must have a Mac SCSI driver in the drive's apple_driver partition. Moreover
the driver must be able to recognize valid disk partitions with names other
than apple_HFS. I can use my IIgs' hard disk with my Mac but only the HFS
volume shows up. I've heard that Apple's HDSC setup app installs a driver
that will recognize ProDOS partitions, but it only likes drives with Apple
ROMs unless you patch it. If the drive wasn't formatted on a Mac you can only
hope that there is an apple_driver partition since not all II formatters put
one on the disk. If there is you might be able to install a driver in it with
an app such as Transoft SCSI Director.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
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