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Re: Moving SCSI HDs between Mac/IIe? Update



Ernest <ernestls@home.com> wrote

>
> FYI. I was able to borrow a IIe card manual, and according to the manual,
> you can attach an external SCSI HD that was set up for the IIe but you
have
> to set it up using the Macintosh system running under the IIe emulator,
and
> you can only set it up to use 10meg partitions.

I was just playing with this. I believe you can partition the drive with a
10 meg ProDos partition, then downsize the Mac partition and increase the
size of the ProDos partition to 32 megs.

 Apparently, this will allow
> it to run on both the IIe and the Mac, so files can be dumped to the
> external drive, and then moved to the IIe computer that way.
>
> I'll give it a try this weekend, and post a further update on what I find.
>

That should work, but I tried with some archives, and it forks the files.
#!@!
-Paul