Re: Partitions

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <8h6al4$lrh$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>, "John King" 
<joki@eskimo.com> wrote:

> Does that mean that mean I could format a SyQuest cartridge on a Mac and 
> use it on a IIgs, but not the other way?

Not exactly.  If you are using the GS/os Apple Disk Utility, look on
some of the Apple II ftp sites for a program called Genex.  This will
extract a section out ADU and save it as a filed called
"GenericMacSCSI".  If this file is in the drivers folder on the GS/OS
book disk, ADU will use it to put a driver partition on the cartridge.
I have done this before with a 44MB Syquest and it worked fine.  It's
just not as fast on the Mac as using, say the Syquest Utilities to put
the driver on the cart.

Now, if you format the Syquest cart on the Mac with modern utilities,
it'll create a driver partition that the IIGS doesn't know how to 
ignore.  I usually just ejected that and let the normal partition
come up.  Apple changed the driver for the onboard SCSI at one point
and started having the drivers that were compatible with the newer
SCSI system name the driver partition different.  This was after the
Apple II was pretty much out of the loop at Apple so nothing got
updated for the IIGS.  I think some people have successfully patched
the GS/OS SCSI drivers to ignore the extra info, but I've never done
it.  I've just tended to stick with filesharing once I got a Mac and
wasn't downloading stuff on a friends Mac.

Greg B.
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