User`s guide

Shared HFS GS/Mac disks should be formatted on the IIGS because the IIGS
tends to provide a format that is acceptable to both platforms while the Mac
tends to ignore the needs of the IIGS.
Besides the standard Apple Disk Utility (ADU), you will need GenEx. GenEx
extracts the generic Mac SCSI driver from ADU's resource fork and puts it into
the IIGS' drivers folder. Thus, when ADU looks in that folder, it finds and
installs the driver and does not give the "no mac driver found" error. You can
download GenEx (GenEx.shk) and info (GenEx.shk.txt) from Ground at ...
http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/upl98/Feb98/ .
Once you get GenEx, use the following procedure to prepare Zip disks:
o- Go to the Apple Advanced Disk Utility (ADU) on the IIgs and select Partition
Drive. Delete all the partitions except one and resize that one partition to
fill up the entire drive. Click on the button to repartition the drive. At this
point, ADU will ask you if you want to low level format and warn you that it is
going to take a long time. Click on Yes.
o- ADU will wipe the drive. By doing it this way, you are giving ADU a clean
slate to install the GenericMacSCSI driver onto the drive.
o- Finally, initialize the HFS volume.
Surprise, the new Zip disk works on both the IIGS and Mac without annoying
errors!
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From: John Holmes and Tarage
PC--> IIgs (also, maybe, IIgs--> PC and PC <--> Mac)
DataViz sells a product called MacOpener 2000 for machines running Windows
that actually allows you to use all HFS formats, except for 400K/800K floppies,
on your PC while running Windows. This goes not only for reading the media but
also writing and formatting as well.
I put a zip disk in my Parallel Port Zip drive on my PC and formatted it
HFS and copied some of the //gs software I had downloaded. It worked on my IIgs
(equipped with a SCSI zip 250 drive) like a charm!
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From: Supertimer and Rubywand
PC<-->IIgs
You can use MUG! to R/W MS-DOS formatted Zip disks. Mug! (mug101.bxy) along
with an info file is on Ground at ...
http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/apple16/System/Ndas/ .