Re: can a Mac read an Apple II SCSI drive?

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <CtrDzH.7G5@actrix.gen.nz>,
David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

>If it was an "Apple" branded drive, the necessary software is included
>with the Macintosh System Software: I think it is called "Apple HDSC
>Setup", or something like that.  It can initialize the drive, install a
>device driver, and create one or more partitions.

The drives aren't Apple branded or anything but drives used in Apple machines,
be they Quantum, Seagate, etc., have an Apple supplied ROM installed. HD SC
Setup only works with such drives unless you use resedit to hack it.

>You have to be a little careful with this extension, especially if you
>try to write general Macintosh files to a ProDOS volume: if the file
>has a resource fork, the IIe will not be able to read the file (or
>delete it!)  I've heard that using it from Mac programs other than
>Finder will result in a resource fork being created on all files saved
>on the ProDOS volume.

The extension saves all files on ProDOS volumes as extended typeless files
(storage type 5, type 0) including files written by the Finder.

>There are a couple of freeware programs for the IIe, which allow files
>to be copied from an HFS 3.5" disk, but I don't think they support a
>hard drive partition.

HFSlink says it can handle HFS volumes up to 32 mb which is logical since 
ProDOS device drivers can handle that many blocks.

>Unfortunately, the ideal program for this is no longer available:
>Chinook SCSI Utilities (for use with Apple SCSI cards on the IIe and
>IIgs).  It lets you set partition sizes down to the block level, and
>can reformat individual partitions without affecting others.

Yep this is a great program. We need to pester whoever owns it to put it
back on the market.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
shack@crash.cts.com