Re: Can a mac mount a prodos hard drive?

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <398e4650@news1.svn.net>, Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net> wrote:
>
>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.

You can get a ProDOS volume to mount only when the device's driver recognizes
partitions with names other than APPLE_HFS as disk volumes. I would say only
a handful do that.

If you want to know for absolute sure, hooking it up to a II is the only way.
On a Mac, failing to mount could mean it's unformatted as well as possibly
being ProDOS.
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