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Partitioning a SCSI drive to be ProDOS/MAC



I have a question.
 
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.


Apperenty, this is not an easy procedure.  I've called around and got the
following responses.
 
Apple:  1-800-SOS-APPL
(They now have a REAL support team, and they will answer Apple II
questions.

They will even answer Apple III and Lisa questions.  Give 'em a call right
now and test it out.  Or put it in your rolodex.  1-800-SOS-APPL, skip 
the touch-tone questions, and wait for a voice operator)

I called the first time and the guy said that the SCSI HD utility that
comes with the Disk Tools disk on the mac's system disks would work fine.
I called it again, and a different person told me that it wouldn't work.
 
Quality:
The person told me that it couldn't be done.  But if I found a way, send
them the info so that they could publish it.
 
Alltech:
The tech person said that it could be done but it required third party mac
formatting software, either Hard Drive Toolkit by FWB (they make Hammer
drives) or SilverLining (Both EXPENSIVE programs, when saving money is what
I'm trying to do).  Said that he could do it for me if I sent him my drive,
for a fee.  But he also said that I could use a modern version of Copy II+
to do a low level format.  I have verson 9.0.  BTW, is there a way I can 
get v9.1?
 
You guys:
You tell me.  What do you think?
 
Do I need to buy an Apple SCSI drive or will any SCSI drive do?
 
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 also have Copy II+ v9.0 and the SCSI utility that came with the high
speed SCSI card.  The guy from Altech said not to use the SCSI Utility.
 
and finally, which is better:  EasyDrive or ProSel 8?
 
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