Re: Disk images-- ShrinkIt .sdk on dsk's

[fadden@netcom.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <37ac8025.45066776@news>,
Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:
>On 07 Aug 1999 08:31:42 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>If you are serious about emulating a IIGS, it is best not
>>to mess with tiny dsk images.  Jeff Blakeney posted a
>>good way to transfer IIGS info.
>
>The real benefit here is that I got my emulated IIgs running the exact
>same GS/OS set up with all the extras installed without having to do
>it all from scratch.  I won't be setting up an exact copy of my IIgs
>setup in my emulators because I don't really have the hard drive space
>for 1.2 GB of disk images.  :)

Dang... I didn't realize you could do that! :-)

I did a file-by-file compression on four 20MB ProDOS partitions right
after I nearly lost them due to stiction.  Hadn't even occurred to me
to archive the entire volume as a single disk.  Sounds like a fine
inaugural application for the new localtalk setup.

(I ended up replacing the sticky 100MB hard drive with a 2GB hard drive,
which was the smallest I could find.  Couldn't get it working on a RamFAST,
but the Apple HS SCSI worked fine.  Sort of amusing to have five 20MB ProDOS
partitions -- the fifth one is a floptical xfer slot -- and a 1.9GB HFS
partition with nothing on it.

The PC I just put together has 128MB of RAM and boots off an 18GB Quantum
Atlas IV Ultra2-LVD hard drive that scored 20MB/sec in a sequential read
benchmark.  In theory, I could read the entire contents of my original IIgs
hard drive into physical memory in about five seconds.  My, how times have
changed.  It's cool to think that not only are both machines still
running, they can talk to each other and share files over a network.)

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