Re: mounting a Prodos hard rive on a Power PC

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

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 (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???

Man every time a thread like this starts up, I get giddy with glee that 
Nathan is history. People wanting an answer should be overjoyed too since
they can get a useful answer without having to wade through NathanSpew first.

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.
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