Re: Help with Zip Drive and the IIgs

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

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:

: >It's a little hard to have a Mac formatted hard disk without a driver
: >in its driver partition. As for devices from other boxes, PC Exchange,
: >an "out of the box" OS component, can load drivers if they don't have one.

:    So it claims. Too bad it didn't work for others the last time you
: spouted this on csa2, and on a Mac I pulled out of the unused pile in

I don't recall "spouting" it because I rarely use PC Exchange, and never
to mount ProDOS hard disk volumes. Indeed, I used an old version of HD SC
setup on my IIgs' hard disk instead of 7.3.5, whose driver mounts ProDOS 
volumes directly, because I don't want the ProDOS volume to show up.

As an experiment, I connected my IIgs' hard disk to my new SE file server box 
and set up PC Exchange to load a driver for it. When I restarted, I got a
message saying that there was a driver conflict. So it does load a driver.
As far as getting the ProDOS volume to show up, something else is involved.
Someone else will have to fill in because I have no need to get a ProDOS
volume to show up and can best invest the necessary effort elsewhere.

:    Once again, Randy, your blind worship of the fruity logo is causing
: you to act as if you sacrificed half your IQ on the altar of the Mac.
: Tell the truth one of these years about them, ok? It'd be a nice
: change.

OK here's the truth: Macs beat the living snot out of the alternative. I
can only shake my head and chuckle when my Win95 using coworker talks about
how he can't get peripherals to work, and how installing games and the like
can make his CD drive vanish or blow out his windows directory. The driver
thing you're always bellyaching about is child's play by comparison.
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