MSDOS and SCSI Partitions

[paw@peg.apc.org]

dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote in reply to:
>Gavin Fung <gfung@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca> who asked:
>> Is it possible to partition the hard drive for several different
>> format, ie. HFS, ProDOS, and MSDOS.

>MS-DOS, however, uses a different partitioning scheme that is not
>compatible with the Mac/Apple II scheme.  Special software is required
>to access data on an hard drive with the PC's standard partitioning
>scheme, and you cannot mix MS-DOS and ProDOS/HFS partitions on the
>same disk.

Why not? A _SCSI_ partition could be further partitioned with _MSDOS_
partitions, couldn't it? I agree that booting _may_ be an issue.

>This would also be no use on an Apple II unless someone wrote a device
>driver that could cope with the PC's partitioning scheme (i.e. a new
>version of SCSIHD.DRIVER for use with Apple's SCSI cards, or a new
>RAMFast ROM).

My MSDOS Utilities (MSDOS Tools) can access an MSDOS partitioned SCSI
drive quite happily. Several users are doing just that, although I'm not
sure whether anyone has a drive with other than MSDOS partitions on it.

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