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Re: ProDOS CDs

Sean McNamara wrote:


Hi folx,
I've fired up my IIgs with its SCSI HD, and that works OK, if a little slowly. I have a spare external Apple CD drive which I'm planning on connecting up to it.
Now, I know I can use HFS CDs with the HFS FST, but I was wondering about ProDOS CDs - it seems appropriate to try and use native formats, and I'd like to play around with it.
I've read the excellent article at <http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_03/Mixed-Partition.html>, and I think I can handle all that, but I want to burn the CD myself, so instead of Step 5 being: 

        "5. Mail your hard disk drive to the CD production
            company of your choice, asking them to place an
            image of the hard disk on the data track of the CD.

I want it to be:

        "5. Place an image of the hard disk on the data track
            of a CD using [programs|methods] X, Y or Z."
I have a PowerBook G4 running OS X 10.3.5 with a SuperDrive, I have an eMac 800MHz that can do 10.3.5 or 9.2.2 with a Combo drive, and I have an LC575 running 7.6.1 which I can probably rustle up an external CD-R drive with Toast for.
Any pointers on methods to use the above, or programs I can download which will do the job for me? 

Since your IIgs has SCSI and the eMac and Powerbook don't you're
going to have to use the 575.

Here's how I've burned ProDOS CDs with a Mac.

1) I set up a hard drive with the data and partitions I wanted.

2) I connected the hard drive to the Mac and leaving the hard drive
off, I booted the Mac. After the Mac booted I turned the hard drive on.

3) I used Toast to do a Device Copy.

The result is a CD that's basically a copy of the hard drive. If
you're making a backup of your main IIgs hard drive it'd be a good
idea to temporarily rename the partitions since GSOS won't like
mounting a CD with the same partition names as your hard drive.

The reason I leave the hard drive off until after the Mac has booted
is so that none of the partitions will mount on the Mac. Some of my
hard drives will mount and then MacOS likes to add some files that
are hidden to it but not to the Apple II.