Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!luth!jem
From: jem@sm.luth.se (Jan Erik Mostr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Advice needed: Mac Plus and a SuperDrive harddisk
Message-ID: <516@my.sm.luth.se>
Date: 20 Mar 90 18:05:19 GMT
Reply-To: Jan Erik Mostr|m <jem@my.sm.luth.se>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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Advice needed

I need some advice regarding a Mac Plus and an 
internal SuperDrive disk.
The story goes like this: Some people asked me over 
to take a look at their Mac to see if I could find 
out why the harddisk didn't show up. I packed my 
diskettes and went over to see what I could do, 
this is what I discovered.
They have a Mac Plus which have been unused for 
several year with an internal 20M SuperDrive 
harddisk, which didn't mount. I was able to mount 
it using SCSI Probe, the drive didn't show up on 
the list of SCSI devices, but anyway I found a 
program that was supposed to install some resources 
into the system so the Mac could recognize the 
SuperDrive and it did work when I used system 5.5 
but when I tried to install system 6.0.x I got the 
message "A resource is missing". When I used 
ResEdit to take a closer look I saw to my 
amazement, remember that I'm new in this Mac 
business, that the SuperDrive seemed to use a MFS 
filesystem. So my guess is that the error message 
is related to this or ... ?

So what do I do to use this SuperDrive with 6.0.x ( 
they need this version since the programs they plan 
to use demands at least 6.0.x ) ?? Is there an 
updated program to install resources so that the 
SuperDrive can use a HFS filesystem ??


Jan Erik Mostr|m    jem@sm.luth.se (ARPA  : jem%sm.luth.se@ucbvax.berkeley.edu)
Univ. of Lulea,Sweden              (Bitnet: jem%sm.luth.se@sekth.bitnet)