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

[gudat@avalon.unizh.ch (gudat henrik)]

misc176@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
: I not so long ago obtained a SCSI card for my Apple IIE (Apple II HS SCSI
: card) and picked up a 20MB hard drive. The idea I had was that I would be able
: to use this drive to store my heaps of II stuff on, and to use it also with
: the Macintoshs I have access to, including a friends one with an Apple IIE card
: in it. So I formatted it using the supplied programs (Apple HD SCSI Partition)
: But when I plugged the drive into my friends mac, it wouldn't mount, even
: though the mac could see it on the SCSI chain, (there were no SCSI ID
: conflicts) and the Mac had "Apple II File System" extension installed. I used
: SilverLining from La Cie to check things out. It could read info from the
: drive, including partition types and sizes, and the fact that the main
: partition was a PRODOS volume.
:     So I have a problem: I considered updating the drivers on the drive with
: the Silverlining drivers, but I don't know whether that would make the drive
: unreadable by the Apple II HS SCSI card/ProDOS. The Apple II SCSI partition
: program cannot resize partitions, and tells me no technical info about
: anything. 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?
:     Any help/advice pointers would be appreciated, as would any software that
: would achieve the above aims.
:     Thanks,
: -- 
: o---------------------------------------------------------------------------o
:   From Philip Lamb (Internet: P.Lamb@CantvA.Canterbury.AC.NZ
:                           or: Misc176@CantvA.Canterbury.AC.NZ )
:   Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Try this:

Install Prodos file system (7.1) or foreign file system extension (7.5)
and the FWB's HDT Disk Driver (current version 1.5.1). You can then
mount any HFS/Apple II partition using the HDT Primer tool. You should
only be careful when accessing Apple II partitions from the Mac: your
IIgs won't like the Mac's desktop file. I recently backed up my Prodos
partition and the backup software was pretty confused unless I excluded
the desktop file from the catalog....:)

BTW, whether you'll be using FWB's driver or not, I can recommend this
product wholeheartedly. It's simply great. I do not work for FWB -
unfortunately...

- henrik
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