Re: Mounting a SCSI Prodos HD on a Mac...

[anomaly3@mc.net (anomaly3@mc.net)]

Randy,

There is a system extension called "ProDOS File System" and what this does
is assist my Mac in handling ProDOS volumes - I've got my HD with a 10Mb
partition, and the partition shows up on the desktop underneath the HFS
volume, with a cool icon noting that it is an Apple II ProDOS volume. If
you do not have this extension in your extensions folder, it could be the
reason why when you mount the HD, only the HFS voulme shows up. I think the
extent of ProDOS support on the Mac is limited to 800K media unless the
aforementioned extension is installed -- you may want to give it a try. It
comes bundled with the IIe Startup Disk software for the LC IIe card and
can be found on Apple's FTP sites.

- Tony :-)

> I've hooked up my IIgs' hard disk to my Macs and only the HFS volume shows
> up. From what I gather this is because you need to have in the drive's
> driver partition a device driver that recognizes partitions with names other
> than APPLE_HFS as disk volumes. I plan to put an Apple ROM equipped 230 mb
> Quantum on my IIgs, formatted with Apple HD SC Setup, as I understand that
> the driver it installs will work.

> Randy Shackelford
> shack@southwind.net