Re: A SCSI Format problem

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net> wrote:

> In article <20000115035951.23182.00000679@ng-fp1.aol.com>,
> supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> 
> > You don't need ProDOS partitions!  In fact, I'm not sure they
> > work through AppleTalk.
> 
> I don't know if they work through the MacOS 7+ file sharing, but
> if you have AppleShare 3.0, you could set up system to boot over
> the network off of a ProDOS volume on the Mac.  That was the
> primary reason for it....

Nope.  The Mac volume is in HFS format.  Booting ProDOS over the network
just requires the correctly installed combination of files  in
AppleShare 3.0.

When accessing a file server over an AppleTalk network, the client
machine does not have any way to access the real file system used on the
server.  The server can use any file system it likes.  (For a simple
file system it may need to supplement the directory with additional data
files that contain the extra information required by the AppleTalk
Filing Protocol.)

The client always accesses the server volume through a virtual file
system (AFP), with the driver software on the client side doing
translation as required between AFP and its native OS (whether it be
MacOS, ProDOS-8, GS/OS or whatever).

In fact, the AppleShare 3.0 boot support for an Apple II doesn't involve
a file system at all.  It is more along the lines of raw data streaming,
until sufficient code has been downloaded to get the client up and
running with the operating system (or the OS loader and boot FST, in the
case of GS/OS).

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David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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