Re: driver needed

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Herbert Fung (herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:
: Previously angel@step.polymtl.ca (Gabriel Bourgetel) wrote:
:  
: >It is very simple, but you need two things:
: >
: >1- System 6 for the IIGS
: >2- To have a properly installed version of the HFS FST
: >
: >The you simply format the drive by using the usual method.
: >Except that you choose HFS instead of PRODOS.
: >
: >Note: If you have more than one partition on the drive, you may
: >have some with HFS and some with PRODOS.
:  
: Actually a Mac still won't be able to recognized the HFS partition. There
: is some other way to install the driver, but I don't know how. The only
: way I know that will work for sure is to format and partition the drive
: on a Mac first.

I set up my IIgs' hard disk by formatting and partitioning it on the IIgs
with ADU then I put it on my Mac and zapped a driver into the driver partition
with Transoft SCSI Director. The formatter you use has to create a driver
partition and make it big enough to hold the driver. Chinook SCSI Utilities
doesn't create a driver partition at all it turns out. So now the HFS volume
show up on my desktop when the drive is on the Mac. I connect it every so often
to run Norton on it. The ProDOS volume doesn't show up even with PC Exchange
installed though. I guess it's because the driver from SCSI Director only
recognizes partitions named Apple_HFS as disk volumes. No loss though since
I use localtalk normally to get files between machines.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool