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Re: Moving SCSI HDs between Mac/IIe? Update
- Subject: Re: Moving SCSI HDs between Mac/IIe? Update
- From: "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
- Date: 2000/08/25
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Silicon Valley North (http://www.svn.net)
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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