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

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shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>David. E. Goble (goble@kigateway.eastend.com.au) wrote:
>
>: 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.
>
>You did it backwards. You want to format/partition with your Mac in order
>to get a driver into the APPLE_DRIVER partition on the disk. Then the SE/30
>will be hppy with it.

Once again...ADU CAN DO IT!  I'm not saying Macintosh can't, but
ADU CAN TOO!  Just use GenEx to extract the GenericMacSCSI
driver from ADU.  Save this driver to the drivers folder on the GS/OS
boot disk and ADU will install it onto the APPLE_DRIVER partition.

This is what ADU does --  First, it checks to see if the drive has an
Apple ROM.  If it does, it automatically copies the GenericMacSCSI
driver inside ADU to the APPLE_DRIVER partition.  If the drive is
not Apple (no Apple ROM), then ADU looks in the drivers folder for
a GenericMacSCSI driver.  If it can't find a third party driver there,
ADU complains "Macintosh driver not installed.  HFS partitions can't
work on Mac."...

What GenEx does is extract the Apple driver from within ADU
and renames it GenericMacSCSI.  Put this driver in the drivers folder
and ADU will use it.  Your GS formatted hard disks will be usable
on Macintosh.

This is exactly the same thing as the patch to the Mac HD software.
On a Mac, the patch lets Apple's Mac driver be installed into the
APPLE_DRIVER partition.  Exactly the same result.