Re: Superdrive Controllers $59

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

<pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Second, if you install the HFS FST, your GS can format and save
> as well as read off of HFS disks, both 800K and 1.44MB.  Using
> nothing more than the HFS FST and MacSee et al on the PC side,
> you have your bridge.  By the way, other than for booting, GS/OS
> does not have a default filesystem.  HFS is on the same level as
> ProDOS to GS/OS so files on either are equivalent from the user's
> point of view.  I use HFS formatted disks and hard drive partitions
> all the time.  The fact that GS/OS can't boot without the ProDOS
> FST demonstrates this same levelness.

Was there a typo in that last sentence?  GS/OS _can_ boot without the
ProDOS FST, but only if booted from an AppleShare server.

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David Empson
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