The only real problem may be the mixing of SCSI and ATA.
On a SCSI system, OS-X wants to be put on SCSI ID#0, and on the "root"
partition of that drive at that.
You will be able to see files in both directions, that is OS-X sees
OS-9 files just fine and vice-versa.
OS-X does not have to have the drives (SCSI or otherwise) to be
formatted using only HFS+, it can be in the "other" UNIX format, but
this is the way to go so that OS-9 can see the drive correctly and some
programs and utilities in OS-X expect HFS+ drive formatting.
XPostFacto is coming out with version 3 "soon" that will allow OS-X to
be put on another drive (like an external firewire) and still be
bootable and this may solve your problem. [XPostFacto is a utility that
lets you put OS-X on the older unsupported Macs -- though you will need
to have a G3 or G4 upgrade card in them to run Jaguar -- 10.2.x].
The current XPostFacto may help with what you are doing.
You are right, there are quite a few UNIX programs that you will find
useful. If you are going to jump all the way to 10.2, then you might
find the beta X11 from Apple worth downloading and using.
Jerry
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 03:08 PM, Bill Holt wrote:
> First post. Senior Mac user - since March '84. I still have my
> original
> 128k - expanded to a 4 meg "monster" - because I just can't bear to
> part
> with it. One of that relatively small group of engineers who use a
> Mac.
>
> My current system setup: beige G3 rev1 mini-tower with 320 meg of
> physical
> ram, 6 meg of vram, the AV package, a two-port usb mounted in one of
> the pci
> slots, two hard drives - one scsi 9 gig which I use as the normal
> startup
> (95% of the time) and an ATA 80 gig with three partitions. I select
> one of
> the ATA partitions as the startup if I want to use my 3D cad program
> (with a
> set of extensions that allows it to behave nicer). All of my
> drives/partitions are formatted as HFS+.
>
> But I'm getting anxious to install OSX on my G3 because there are some
> UNIX
> programs I want to play with. (I appreciated the discussion of a few
> weeks
> ago on that topic.)
>
> However, I have one application - absolutely required - which must run
> on
> system 9.1 or earlier. Believe it or not, Claris Cad still works
> pretty
> well on 9.1. Yep, I know about the other cad programs and nope, for 2D
> drawing, nothing measures up.
>
> And, as most of my actual work these days is in the area of specialty
> Filemaker Pro development (www.notesoft.com), I'm very hesitant to
> risk new
> instabilities. As a user who started with the first Mac system,
> upgraded
> many times, and had to back up a few, my caution is based on
> experience.
>
> So, my basic question is, can I leave the 9 meg scsi drive as a system
> 9.1
> setup and install Jaguar on one of the ATA drive partitions without
> conflicts. When running under OS-X, can you see files on an OS-9
> drive?
> When running OS-9, can you see files on an OS-X drive? Is the HD drive
> formatting different in OS-X than in OS-9? Would I have to reformat
> the
> ATA?
>
> Thanks for wading through this and for any responses. If anyone ever
> needs
> to know the soft interrupt key sequence for the first Mac system, or
> how to
> use the original program switcher, I'll be able to chime in with the
> help.
>
> Bill Holt
>
>
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> | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
>
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