Re: Help: Using an Apple IIGs Hard disk HFS partition for MAC SE30 BOOT disk?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:

: >I then, using appleTalk, copied a copy of system 7 on to the
: >partition. Then connected the hard disk up to the Mac SE30 and booted
: >up from the Mac SE30s internal system, but the external hard disk was
: >not recognised. Can anyone help?

That ain't the way to get a system folder onto a Mac volume.

:    Despite whining from certain Mac worshippers here, the Mac DOES
: have an *continuing* idiotic refusal to deal with HDs that do not have
: Macintosh driver partitions on them. [If Apple had a clue about making
: their machines usable, they'd have made such driver partitions
: *optional*, but the Dilbertian management would rather simply have you
: "think brainwashed"]

Did it ever occur to you that people want useful answers and not the same
old spew from you? You persist with this crap at everything resembling an
opportunity, and doubtless the person asking the question is left wondering
why you seem to have a telephone pole sized stick up your ass.

:    You're either going to need to fork over $$$ for a 3rd party Mac
: SCSI toolkit that does it right (by providing those optional drivers
: when the OS "can't"), format that disk on a Mac, or force a driver
: partition onto the drive (hope you left space). Or, you can try and
: push Apple out of their proprietary bull**** (why you need a patch
: program to make Apple's formatting software talk to non-Apple devices
: should be grounds enough to see that Apple is just as much the
: money-grubbing losers as MS)... like that'll happen anytime soon.

You ought to get your facts straight too. HD SC Setup needs patched. Drive
Setup, available since the end of '96, can recognize any drive.
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