Re: mounting a Prodos hard rive on a Power PC

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Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

>Michael Ewen writes ...
>> 
>> 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 (1.2 Gig Hard
>> Drive and 32 megs memory, plus another 32 in virtual memory).  Now I've
>> hooked them togther put it hasn't mounted on the desktop.  Help!!!
>>  I want to copy my files ad programs(so I cna use Bernie) to my PowerPC.
>> How can I do it.  I've tried using Mt Everything and SCSI Probe to get the
>> Mac to recognize my ProDos volumne and while to acknowledges that it is
>> their it will not mount it on the desktop.  I've tried PC Exchange but
>> again with no luck.  Any other suggestions???
> ....
>
>     Have you tried accessing the drive when running an Apple IIe or
>IIgs emulator? Maybe the Mac OS gets it the way; but, maybe not.

Apparently not.  It seems Mac emulators must also go through the
Mac's System Software interface and thus if a volume can't be
mounted on Mac Finder, it won't show up in the emulated IIGS
Finder.