Re: Partitioning a SCSI drive to be ProDOS/MAC

[jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell)]

>What is the procedure for setting up a SCSI hard drive so that it can be
>booted on a Apple //e with the High Speed card, and still have a bootable
>partition for the Mac.  I use my Apple //e at home but use macs at work and
>I would like to use one hard drive to store all of my information between
>the two computers.
 
Well, I'm not certain, but I think my simple way of setting up a hard drive
for a Mac and II also happens to make it bootable on the Mac. If you have
an Apple hard drive, just format it with Advanced Disk Utils on a IIGS and
put a Mac partition on it. If you have a non-Apple drive, you need to 1>
get a Mac driver from some Mac utilities which is difficult for the 
non-programmer or 2> get the Mac driver out of Advanced Disk Util
which is easy if you have Rez, Derez, and a shell, which is mostly just
programmers.
 
>I have access to mac's Apple HDSC Setup program, and there is a option for
>formatting 10 MB ProDOS, Maximum Macintosh (Which is what I want).  The guy
>from Apple also said that only the LC will recognise it if it had the //e
>card because it has special circuitry.  Will this program work for me?
 
I don't know what Apple HDSC Setup will do, but I believe 1> It works only
with Apple drives unless you get the non-crippled version included with
A/UX and 2> It is not special circuitry in the LC that lets it access ProDOS
volumes, but the ProDOS File System init (aka "extension") that you can
get from the IIe card software on ftp.apple.com.

I've never used EasyDrive, but Prosel-16 is great.
`:wq

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  --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu