Re: can a Mac read an Apple II SCSI drive?

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

In article <1994Jul30.154919.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
 <misc176@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

>Is there any way that I can have one drive formatted as a ProDOS
>volume so that it can be booted and read by my apple IIe and read by my
>Friend's Mac?

I just converted a 105 mb hard disk for use with my IIgs and Mac a few days 
ago. The way I did it was partitioning it with a 30 mb ProDOS volume and the 
rest of the space as an HFS volume of around 70 mb. I used ADU for this.
Then I put the drive on the Mac and used Trsnsoft SCSI Director to install a 
Mac driver. When I was done the drive's ProDOS volume and HFS volume both
showed up on the IIgs, but the ProDOS volume is ignored on the Mac, even with 
the ProDOS file system extension installed. But the HFS volume showed up on 
the desktop with no mounting necessary. Since I only aim to put the drive on
the Mac to use disk maintenance and repair apps on the HFS volume, I was more
than happy with the result.
So going from this it appears that it isn't possible to use ProDOS hard disk
volumes on a Mac. The only hope I can think of is if Apple File Exchange could
see the volume and access it. Can't test that myself since I don't have AFE.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
shack@crash.cts.com