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From: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Spectre/SCSI question
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.182801.17937@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 17 Sep 90 18:28:01 GMT
Sender: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno)
Organization: Integrated Healthcare Technologies, Inc.
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I know that it's possible to use a SCSI drive with a host adapter on an ST
with Spectre, but is it possible to move the drive over to a Mac and directly
use the partition created by Spectre?  

I borrowed a friend's SyQuest drive and formatted and partitioned a cartridge 
with my ICD utilities. I made a small TOS partition, and one for the Mac. I
then formatted the "Mac" partition with the Spectre software. Things were fine
on the ST, I could see the TOS partition, and I could see the other partition
when running Spectre.  I then gave the drive and cartridge back to my friend
and asked him to try and read it on the Mac in his office. He couldn't see
the partition, the disk was not recognised.  Is there a way to swap cartridges
this way?  Is there some software for the Mac (reasonably priced, that is) 
that will handle the partitions (I had the Mac partition as the last one, 
since TOS stops looking at partitions after it finds a non-TOS one.) Does
Spectre use a proprietary format for its partition?

Thanks for help
---jb