Re: Making Apple II 3.5 inch disks with a modern Mac

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

>In <8vmsa1t2qt70etrdgitf3s9t3bjac0j02m@4ax.com> Mitchell Spector  wrote:
>>     I picked up a desktop 233 MHz G3 last week and it recognizes IIgs
>> floppies just fine under MacOS 8.6. I haven't yet installed MacOS X (
>> still hunting for a copy) but I'd question whether it still has ProDOS 
>> support.
>
>Not only does it have no ProDOS file system support, it has no support 
>for the built-in floppy drive at all! The OS works fine with USB floppy 
>drives though, since it treats them exactly the same as any other drive. 
>If you want you can even partition them or set them up as RAID volumes. 
>But of course there are no USB drives that can handle Apple GCR disks.

    Well then, in that cause I'll definitely be partitioning the hardisk to
accommodate a dual boot setup between MacOS 9 and X (that is,
assuming a dual boot configuration can done on an older G3; if not, 
I'll install a second hardisk I suppose).

    Question is, does MacOS 9.22 still support ProDOS and the built-in
floppy drive? I'd would guess so, but before I go ahead and install...

Mitchell Spector