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

[Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

in article cogva1pn66od2gr1ikg2pjkhuti17nep04@4ax.com, Mitchell Spector at
mitch2gs@hotmail.com wrote on 6/15/05 2:02 AM:

> 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 

Not sure about OS 9.22, but I'm running OS 9.2 and it
supports ProDOS disks just fine. In fact, I am using
a real 1.4 MB ProDOS disk on Bernie 3.  :o)  I'm also
told that this G3 will also handle OS 9 and OS X from
the same hard drive just as well.  :o)

Bill Garber 
Email - Willy46pa@comcast.net