Re: Using a IIGS hard drive with Mac Power PC

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

Erik Kloeppel (erik@hypermall.com) wrote:
: In article <23JUN199515322478@utkvx.utk.edu>, sadasiva@utkvx.utk.edu
: (Krishna Madurai Sadasivam) wrote:

: > Hello gang!
: > 
: > Got another question for all you Apple II gurus out there...
: > 
: > Is it possible to hook up a ProDos formatted hard drive to  the Mac? I have
: > an Ethernet connection on my Mac and have FTP'd stuff to the Mac hard drive.
: > I would like to copy the stuff from the Mac over to the Apple IIGS. Is there
: > any problems with this? 
: > 
: the easiest way would be to pop about $20 out and connect the IIGS to the
: Mac via Appletalk.  Then, the IIGS can see the Mac HD as one of it's own,
: and you can grab files off it like nothing.

The problem with this is having to keep the network control panel handy on the
Mac so you can switch between ethernet and localtalk all the time, or spending
three bills on one of those bridge gizmos. That is unless you can have MacTCP
using ethernet and Appletalk using localtalk at the same time, which I'm not
sure is possible, and not be wanting to use Appletalk over ethernet.

: But, unles you have a third party SCSI driver, you can't hook up a ProDOS
: SCSI device to the Mac (dammit!).  Anubis, SIlverLining, and the FWB
: Toolikt should all allow you to mount the ProDOS drive directly on the Mac
: if you want to.

With PC Exchange installed that is. Apple's HD SC Setup is said to allow this
too so you could patch it to work with non Apple drives if need be and give
it a try. I know that the driver installed by Transoft SCSI Director doesn't
work, only the HFS volume shows up.
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