Re: Can a mac mount a prodos hard drive?

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

I.M. Late <suprdave@aol.comAolsucks> wrote

Also got an external
> hard drive which i suspect might be prodos formatted. if i plug it into
the
> mac's scsi connector, will the mac try to mount it? I guess i can (with
great
> difficulty) get out my file://e scsi card and set it up, but if the mac
can quantify
> my hunch, that will be much faster.
>

Well, I'd give it a try. However, I've been fooling around with a IIe card
in an LCIII and a Color Classic.  I can't remember if it was while making an
HFS partition on a IIgs drive, or the ProDos partition on a Mac drive, but
the partition software asked me if I wanted to be able to access the ProDos
partion from a Mac.
I believe I also tried just connecting one of my ProDos external SCSI drives
to one of the Macs,and it didn't mount the drive. I could see it with SCSI
Probe and the Mac's formatter, though.  Partitioning a drive with the Mac
software, making a large primary ProDos partion and a small HFS partition,
both could be accessed by the Mac or the IIgs.
So I think the answer is "maybe", since it seems the Mac can't always access
a ProDos drive.
-Paul