Re: Modify a Mac external HD for a IIgs?

[toh@victoria.tc.ca (Marc Sira)]

In our last episode, pmd@NOescape.com (Perry Dueck) said:

>Because you don't use PC Exchange to erase/format/partition Mac hard
>drives. For that you use Apple's "Drive Setup" which comes with each Mac
>on the system disks or system CD-ROM.

The poster was using the Mac Finder's "Erase Disk" menu item, which provides
a choice of the filesystem type to create on a partition or device based on
the alternate filesystem drivers installed (via PC Exchange and the core OS).
Drive Setup creates partition tables as well as installing filesystems (the
latter mostly as a matter of convenience). So no, you don't use it directly
(except to mount fdisk-partitioned disks) but you need it present at boot time
to work with ProDOS.

>Before PC Exchange there was Apple File Exchange. It's on the system disks
>once again.

This was a different (and pretty horrible) sort of tool, but it's worth noting
since it'll probably create confusion with the newly rechristened File Exchange
(which incorporates PC Exchange).

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Marc Sira		|	toh@victoria.tc.ca
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