The second change is now, I have a Quadra instead of the IIsi, however,

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the internal hard drive is still the same unit (until I can get it
changed). Nothing special.
 
The third change is that I am using the ProDOS File Extension that came
with version 2 of the IIe Card, and can see the ProDOS partition on the
Macintosh! Great stuff!
 
I wouldn't say that this trick is reliable, foolproof, or even acceptable
(!), but I'll simply say that because it's working for me, I'm probably
one lucky individual!  I didn't know what I was up against when I started
this, but now that I know enough about SCSI to decide "is this going to
work?", I can tell you that this trick is supposedly one which will have
a success rate of 20% - maybe less!  And now that Apple have changed
their [brand of] hard drives... etc., who knows if this is ever going to
work for other people - this trick is VERY device dependant, down to the
finest details of SCSI logic.  Well designed drives will work... while
cheaper ones probably won't.
 
It also depends on your computers too.  Macintosh Plus systems, for
example, have a very shaky SCSI implementation that makes many
assumptions (and its ROM-based SCSI Manager is also buggy, and is patched
AFTER the system boots the system software!).  I would doubt that I can
connect my IIGS on a Mac Plus and some drives in between them without
some sort of hanging.
 
I think a far better solution to join these two systems would be to wait
until the Apple II Ethernet Card becomes available... and now that I have
a Macintosh with built-in Ethernet, I can separate the two systems and
re-join them with EtherTalk and AppleShare.
 
 
Ahh well... it was fun experimenting though!  Not something I'd keep
permanent.
 
Tony Kavadias
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Herbert Fung              herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
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