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can a Mac read an Apple II SCSI drive?
I not so long ago obtained a SCSI card for my Apple IIE (Apple II HS SCSI
card) and picked up a 20MB hard drive. The idea I had was that I would be able
to use this drive to store my heaps of II stuff on, and to use it also with
the Macintoshs I have access to, including a friends one with an Apple IIE card
in it. So I formatted it using the supplied programs (Apple HD SCSI Partition)
But when I plugged the drive into my friends mac, it wouldn't mount, even
though the mac could see it on the SCSI chain, (there were no SCSI ID
conflicts) and the Mac had "Apple II File System" extension installed. I used
SilverLining from La Cie to check things out. It could read info from the
drive, including partition types and sizes, and the fact that the main
partition was a PRODOS volume.
So I have a problem: I considered updating the drivers on the drive with
the Silverlining drivers, but I don't know whether that would make the drive
unreadable by the Apple II HS SCSI card/ProDOS. The Apple II SCSI partition
program cannot resize partitions, and tells me no technical info about
anything. Is there any way that I can have one drive formatted as a ProDOS
volume so that it can be booted and read by my apple IIe and read by my
Friend's Mac?
Any help/advice pointers would be appreciated, as would any software that
would achieve the above aims.
Thanks,
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From Philip Lamb (Internet: P.Lamb@CantvA.Canterbury.AC.NZ
or: Misc176@CantvA.Canterbury.AC.NZ )
Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand.