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

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goble@kigateway.eastend.com.au (David. E. Goble) wrote:

>Hi All;
>
>Sorry for posting this Mac question, but I have a Mac SE30 8/40 and
>wish to use a HFS partition on my Apple IIGs external hard disk.
>
>This partition was formated with system 6.0.1s Adv.Disk.Util.
>
>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?

You are missing a step.  What you need to do is, before formatting
and partitioning with Adv. Disk Util., run a program called GenEx
to extract the GenericMacSCSI driver from Adv. Disk Util and place
it into the Drivers folder of the GS.

This goes back to the time when Apple tried to shove their own
hardware at you.  This means in both GS and Mac software, the
partitioning software checks the ROM to make sure the drive is
Apple before installing a Mac driver on it.  This sucks!  This is why
on the older Mac partitioning software, you had to patch it to use
on third party drives.  Think of GenEx as a similar patch for ADU.

GenEx can be found at
ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/apple2/upl98/Feb98/
as GenEx.shk.  Read the accompanying GenEx.shk.txt for info.