Re: Mounting a 2gs hard drive on a MacSE/30 system7.5.3

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dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

>> What I suggest doing is low-level formatting the drive on a Mac,
>> completely obliterating all partition data so you have an empty
>> drive.  Then you can try ADU v1.2 with the GenEx extracted
>> driver one more time.
>
>This should be unnecessary - formatting the drive on a Mac would put a
>driver onto it, but you would probably need to use ADU to set up a
>ProDOS partition (which must be the first partition to allow GS/OS to
>boot), which possibly means using ADU 1.2 to retain the Mac driver.

My thoughts exactly.  It is also a good idea to do this because the
driver that the newer Mac formatters put on the drives is stuck
in a driver partition which the Mac formatters name a little differently
than what GS/OS expects.  As a result, using the drive on the IIGS
would mean ejecting the driver partition each time or accidentally
initializing it, which would be a big problem next time one wants
to use the drive on a Mac.  ADU names the driver partition the
way the GS/OS expects to see it, so the drive will function as
expected on both IIGS and Mac units.