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Re: Create ProDOS partition from non-Apple II?

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In article <T8ucnUoz74SEo1CjXTWcoQ@comcast.com>,
Joel <joelbuckley54.nospam.@hotmail.com> top-posted (grr):
>"David Jayne" <emailDELETE@davidjayne.com> wrote in message
>news:8UDua.63402$4P1.5718528@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
>> Is it possible to create a ProDOS partition on a SCSI hard disk with Mac
>> or PC hardware? I think I remember hearing that the older Macs can do it,
>> but I'm not sure. If so, is there a specific OS version to look for?
>>
>I've used an old version of Norton utilities (DOS) to sector edit SCSI disk
>drives and create and modify Apple partition tables. It's hard to access the
>partition table from an Apple II. Standard block editors won't let you do
>it.

I wrote a little utility a few months ago to create partition tables.  I
used it to make a bootable System 6.0.1 install CD-ROM, but there's no reason
why you couldn't write the partition table to a hard drive instead of a CD. 
The description is at this page:

http://alfter.us/a2soft.shtml

Here's the direct download link:

http://alfter.us/files/prodos-parttbl-gen.tar.gz

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