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

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <CtqLxE.J8w@crash.cts.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@crash.cts.com> wrote:
> 
> 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. 

I think the ProDOS file system extension will only recognise ProDOS
partitions if you're using Apple's own driver (or a third-party driver
that doesn't ignore partitions which aren't of owner "Apple_HFS").

> 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.

Same problem - the device driver isn't telling the Mac about the
partition.  In fact, I don't know if AFX can handle a ProDOS hard
drive partition at all.

> Can't test that myself since I don't have AFE.

Pardon?  It is included with the Mac System Software (since System 6.0).


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