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Re: 20 Years Later: What storage options for IIgs?
Hugh Hood wrote:
To: Steven Hirsch
Steve,
I'm really enjoying your detailed input on this subject of modern mass
storage options including networking for file sharing/storage.
Good to hear that someone finds my blathering helpful!
(BTW, if you do retire your aging SCSI hard drives try a couple of SCSI Zip
100s per machine. When they're connected to a RamFAST, they're great. Fast
and portable. I partition them into (3) 31 Meg partitions with Hard Disk
Speed Tools on the Mac, rather than using the IIGS. Both machines, Mac and
IIGS, read them fine. With (2) drives per machine, backups are pretty easy.)
My experiences with Zip drives on a PeeCee have left a very bad impression of
their reliability. Glad to hear that it's doing the job for you, though.
I have been hoping some Apple II code type would look at MacFUSE for OS X,
and write a ProDOS file system mounter, but I have yet to see it, and I
digress. <http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/>
Thanks for the pointer. I'll take a look at it when I get some time.
So, even with the GatorBox CS, the IIGS won't file share with a Mac running
OS X 10.4 or later. Yuck!
It should be possible to build netatalk for Mac OS X. It's essentially Unix
with a fancy UI on top. Might be worth grabbing the sources and giving it a
try. In fact, it's possible that a binary package exists already. Can't
recall the name, but there's a Debian-like environment for Mac OSX that lets
you pull in and/or build *.deb packages (my Mac is old and slow and I've not
fired it up in a while).
What to do? Well, until someone adds some ProDOS disk mounting capabilities
to the OS X Finder, (MacFUSE, maybe), I'm thinking of buying a couple of
Uthernet Cards, enabling FTP file sharing on the Macs, and using Ewen
Wannop's SAFE to FTP files when I need to. Or, if I've got to boot GS/OS
anyway, I just re-write the files to be transferred to a HFS formatted disk
and forget about the networking.
If all you need to do is transfer files, FTP will be fine. If you want to
directly access a file system over the network, then Appletalk AFP is the only
answer I'm aware of.
BTW, I'm reasonably sure that you can use the //gs Appletalk hardware without
booting into GS/OS. Don't recall ever trying it, though, so I may be wrong.
Steve