Re: Q: ProDOS partitons on a MAC?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <Cv7wqA.H2q@crash.cts.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@crash.cts.com> wrote:
> 
> I saw David Empson say one time that some SCSI drivers won't mount partitions
> which aren't named Apple_HFS. I run Chinook SCSI Utils on my IIgs hard disk
> which has a 32 mb ProDOS volume and a 70 HFS volume and saw that the HFS
> volume is Apple_HFS but the ProDOS volume has the same name for the partition
> as the volume name. So looks like this may be the deal.

Actually, C.S.U. is trying to be "user friendly".  :-)

If it sees a partition of type "Apple_ProDOS", it gives the ProDOS
volume name on the information screen, not the partition type.

For other file systems, it gives the partition type.


Your first point is still true, though - the Mac driver may ignore
partitions called "Apple_ProDOS" (or anything else which isn't
"Apple_partition_map" or "Apple_HFS".

By the way: the partition type strings are not case-sensitive.
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David Empson
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