Re: help on connecting GS & Mac

[marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)]

In a post from Jay Krell he quoted Bieu Do:

>Or better yet, is there a way to partition a hard drive
>so that one volume boots up GS/OS and the other Mac/OS?
>I've installed the HFS FST in the GS but it doesn't seem to
>recognize a Mac-formatted hard drive.  And conversely, a Mac
>would not recognize a GS-formatted HFS drive.

This _has_ worked on my Mac Plus:

ON THE MAC... using MicroNet's hard drive utility (v5.2.2) I
created two hard partitions on a large drive.  The first was
set to 65536 blocks (32mb) the second to the remaining drive
space.  I then installed Mac System 7.0.1 etc. on the second
partition.

move the drive to the GS...

ON THE GS... erase the first partition to ProDOS (using the
Finder) and install GS System 6 on it.

The drive will now boot on either machine... (I strongly
suggest you power down the machines when moving SCSI cables :)

Marc Wolfgram
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