Re: RamFAST and HFS?

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

In article <3547@swuts.sbc.com>,  <JB3819@JB3819.SBC.COM> wrote:
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>In article <D6FCt6.AJz@iglou.com>, <dcrutch@iglou.iglou.com> writes:
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>> I'm having the opposite problem: a ProDOS-formatted drive that I'm trying 
>> to turn into a Mac-recognizable HFS drive. I can format it as an HFS 
>> drive using RamFAST and ADU, but my Macs won't touch it.
>
>I don't know the details, but there is an extra "driver" partition that 
>gets created when a Mac partitions a SCSI drive that MUST be there for 
>a Mac to use the drive.  The Mac's firmware wants to copy the driver for 
>the disk and won't mount the drive without the driver.
>
>So, you HAVE to do the partitioning on the Mac so a driver can be installed.

I partitioned my hard disk with ADU then connected it to my Mac and used
Transoft SCSI Director to zap a driver into the driver partition. You just
have to make sure there is a place for a driver. I formatted my hard disk with
Chinook SCSI Utilities once and found out that it didn't make an Apple_driver
partition. ADU will though. Then all it takes is a Mac app which can put a
driver into the partition.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
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