Re: A SCSI Format problem

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

god23@heaven.org (Bart) wrote:

>This is sort of a Mac issue but....:
>I have a 40 meg hard drive.  I want to hook it up and reformat it as 2 20 meg 
>PRODOS partions to use via appletalk to my //
>I have tried this on a IIsi and on an LCII both running system 7.5
>I run Disk setup and it fails.  If I 1st partion 1 as a Mac the other as a 
>PRODOS it works.  then I can re-partion the 1st as PRODOS too.  
>
>HERE's the prob:
>
>After I reboot it doesn't mount.  I try to mount and it says "Disks larger 
>then 4nnn megabytes not allowed on systen 7.x" or something like that..
>These are 40 MEG DRIVES!!!
>any ideas?

You don't need ProDOS partitions!  In fact, I'm not sure they
work through AppleTalk.  On a IIGS linked to a Mac through
AppleTalk, the shared drives are HFS volumes, not ProDOS
ones.  The IIGS' system module responsible for reading
these shared volumes is the AppleShare.FST inside the
FST folder of the IIGS System folder.

Therefore, no special ProDOS partitions are needed.  Any
file available to the Mac on the normal HFS hard drive can
be seen from the IIGS.  You can even run IIGS programs
from your Mac HFS volumes.

In fact, if you unplug the HFS hard drive from the Mac and
take it to the IIGS, you can also read the disk and run
programs from it on the IIGS locally via the HFS.FST!

IIGS is not limited to ProDOS.

PS: As a local drive, the IIGS can read HFS volumes.  As
an AppleTalk drive on the Mac, they can be HFS+ ones
too.