Re: mounting a Prodos hard rive on a Power PC

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Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

>Michael Ewen <mewen@home.com> wrote:
>: Hopefully someone can help me or point me in the right direction. I have
>: just sent my old and very dear IIGS to the basement and would like 
>: to copy the hard drive to my Performa 6360, Running OS 8.5
>
>Here's the deal: you apparently didn't format the IIgs' hard disk with a Mac
>formatter which will put a driver on the disk which recognizes ProDOS volumes
>as valid disk volumes. Ditto the software you're using to try to mount the
>disk. To make matters worse, PC Exchange only supports ProDOS on floppy disks.
>Apple did flub up pretty hard on that one. So there are two things to try: If
>you formatted the IIgs' disk with Apple's formatter, you can try updating the
>driver on the disk with a new one that will recognize the ProDOS volume. If
>that's not an option, the easiest way will be to enable Appletalk on the IIgs
>and use file sharing to get the files across. All you need cable wise for that
>is a 8 pin peripheral cable plugged into the printer ports.

OR he could use GenEx on the Apple IIGS side to make his
IIGS hard drive a Macintosh readable HFS volume!

That would probably be the best way to go, especially if he's
already backed up his files.  Just repartition the drive with
ADU, making a big HFS partition and using GenEx to make
that partition Mac readable, then back up the files to the HFS
partition.

Then just hook up the drive to Macintosh and it'll mount the
HFS volume on Mac Finder.