Re: Mac Recognizing a ProDos volume

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <61a5jo$odc@navajo.gate.net>, Steve Reeves <stever@gate.net> wrote:

>>>There is a patch you can make to SCSIHD.DRIVER to get the IIgs to properly
>>>ignore APPLE_DRIVER43 driver partitions.
>>
>>If you mean shortening how long the char string is which is compared to the
>>partition name in the SCSIHD.DRIVER file, I tried it and it had no effect.
>>I used a pre SCSI manager 4.3 version of HD SC setup and made a 32 mb HFS
>>volume and a 200 mb A/UX volume on my 230 mb disk, then erased the 32 mb into
>>a ProDOS volume and the 200 mb into HFS.
>
>I mean change the counter in the string comparison routine that checks
>for the "Apple_Driver" partition type string so that it only checks the
>first 12 characters.  This counter is at byte $3574 in the System 6.0.1
>SCSIHD.DRIVER file and is originally $1F.  Change this to $0B and the
>driver will then ignore "Apple_Driver43" partitions.

I tried it and it didn't work so I found another way to format my disk.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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