Re: apple 2 hard disk on a mac . . .

[chk@akela.heidelbg.ibm.com (Christian Karpp)]

Erik Kloeppel (erik@hypermall.com) wrote:
: In article <3njgmm$966@cnn.exu.ericsson.se>, euscef@exu.ericsson.se wrote:

: > I'm looking to move into the Macintosh world and would like to bring my
: > Apple IIe (Prodos) data with me.  I presently have a IIe with a scsi card
: > and a 32 meg Ehman (Seagate) drive.
: > 
: > Is there a way that I can connect the Ehman drive to the external scsi port
: > of a performa 6115 and mount it to the desktop so that Clarisworks and any
: > other Mac applications can read and import the data?
: > 

: I've been totally unable to mount a ProDOS hard disk to my mac.. stupid
: driver seems to require that *&$^&(^#(&  HFS format.  

: If you have a friend with a IIGS, you might try hanging the hard disk off
: it, and use Localtalk to move the files to the mac, then hang the drive on
: the mac and use something like FWB utilities to format it (last I tried,
: the standard Apple HD Setup would not work), then put the files back on
: it..

: cumbersome, but it should work..  I ended up leaving my second hard drive
: on the IIGS and using it as a place to back up essential Mac data...

I've never tried this but it works perfect with ProDOS 3.5" disks:
there's a system extension called somewhat with prodos in it's name which
enabled the mac finder to mount any ProDOS disk straight on the desktop.
no data convert etc. needed. as I said, I've never tried it with any other
ProDOS media than 3.5" disks, but I can't see why it shouldn't work.
if you can't find that extension, drop me an email and I'll mail you a
HQX'ed copy of it...

hope this helps, Xn.
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