Re: ProDOS hard drive on Mac?

[cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <norman-3008940409460001@harman.demon.co.uk>,
Norman Cohen <norman@harman.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <1994Aug16.221439.17704@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>,
>fergus@areaplg2.corp.mot.com wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if it is possible to hook up a ProDOS-formatted
>> scuzzy hard drive to a Macintosh, and be able to read the files
>> that were earlier written to it by an Apple II?
>> 
>> Please email responses if possible directly to me, since I am asking
>> for a friend and do not check this newsgroup regularly.  Thanks!
>> 
>> George Fergus
>> fergus@areaplg2.corp.mot.com
>The answer ia NO I have tried it!!!!!

Well, the answer is actually more like maybe, because it is possible,
I have done it. It depends which Mac SCSI Driver you use. I have used
FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit, and SilverLining, both of which specifically
support ProDOS partitions. It is probably not possible to use a
ProDOS partitioned hard disk on a Mac unless there is either a Mac
driver already installed on the drive, or enough free space to add
one. For this reason, when I'm partitioning any of my hard drives,
I *always* leave 32k of free space, which is enough to hold any
driver partition I've ever seen. Good luck,
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