Re: Focus Drives..partition information

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

karl@blackdown.com wrote:

>Can anyone offer detailed information on how Focus controlled IDE drives
>are partitioned with FocusFormat. I'd like to be able to take the 2.5" drive
>I have, move it into a PC running linux which has a 2.5"->3.5" adaptor
>and write the neccessary code to be able to read the partition table and
>access the filesystems. Basically a quicker solution to transfer files
>to and from the larger HFS filesystem I have between my linux box and
>the IIgs. 
>
>If anyone can offer details, insights, etc, I would really appreciate it.

Logically, they would not use the PC partitioning method as the boot
requirements of the FAT file system and that of the ProDOS file
system are different.  David Empson wrote of this in the past.  One
apparently overwrites the partition table of the other.

Yet Linux can use IIGS formatted HFS partitions on an SCSI drive
connected to the PC's SCSI chain.

One way to tell if it'll work or not is to plug the Focus mech into the
IDE controller of the PC and give it a try.  Back up all the data before
to be safe, of course.