Re: Mac O/S wouldn't recognize a 32 MB ProDOS Partition on a CF card

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid> wrote:
> In article <BLmdncMoIsJ4iCrQnZ2dnUVZ5rudnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>  "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> AppleCPM wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> On Apr 25, 5:49 pm, Eric wrote:
>>> 
>>>> However, the SCSI cards tended to use Apple Partition Map, I thought.
>>>> So, the question is, what SCSI card is this?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>     Good question!  The CF card was most likely partitioned using the
>>> Chinook SCSI Utility (CSU) with an Apple SCSI card.  I'm going to
>>> format a 32 MB CF card on a Windows machine as a FAT volume then take
>>> that card and partition it as a ProDOS volume to see if I can
>>> duplicate the problem.  CFFA users can't experience this problem
>>> because the CFFA doesn't create a Mac partition map.  I bought a CFFA
>>> some time ago but have never used it because of that.
>> 
>> In the past, I remember having to partition a drive on the Mac if I
>> wanted to be able to remount it on the Mac after creating a ProDOS
>> partition.
> 
> The partitioning on the Mac wasn't necessary. Installing Apple's SCSI 
> drivers on the drive was. But you can do this with Advanced Disk Utility 
> on the IIGS if you have the right files in the correct location. I know 
> this worked for me going between IIGS and Macs.

I was using a //e, and the Chinook utility. 

> And there were OS 9 and earlier utilities that would mount the drive 
> without having to install those drivers.

ISTR that FWB Toolkit was one of those...

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