Re: mounting a Prodos hard rive on a Power PC

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> writes...

>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???
> 
>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.

    Will FWB ToolKit install the proper driver on an existing ProDOS
or HFS partition? I thought I once heard it could, although I've not 
tested that theory since I have no need to connect my GS's external
SCSI drive on my Macintosh Plus (well, then again, it would be neat 
if I could use the 72 MB HFS partition on there for Mac stuff since
it's sitting empty at the moment).

>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.

    Yep, that works really nicely (I didn't realize just how neat 
it was until I got to try it). The only thing is AppleTalk is really
quite slow, but it's a nicer option than using floppy disks (lately
I've been annoyed by floppies since they'll read fine in one drive
but not another) or even a null-modem connection.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca