Re: HFS Incompatibility

[shack@io.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <647jnp$okg$1@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:

>>Also, I formatted another disk into a Mac format on my GS but it showed up
>>on a PowerPC as a disk with no storage space available.  So, I reformatted
>>the disk again into a Mac format on a PowerPC this time, and it worked
>>fine on both machines.
>
>   This is due to Apple's silly insistence on a Macintosh 'driver'
>partition on the drive before it's seen by a Mac. [They could have
>made this *OPTIONAL* (the way it should have been from the start, but
>they were trying to gouge the consumer by making them buy hardware
>with the fruity logo on it or get their cut from a few selected OEMs)
>at any time in the past 5 years or more, but they seem to have been
>concentrating on more esoteric gunk than basic usability. 
>
>   After you formatted it from the mac, the driver partition was
>there, allowing the mac to see it. The GS is omnivorous, the way it
>should be. [As long as your hardware supports the disk media, you
>should be able to at least see the partitions and have an educated
>guess come out as to what filesystem type it is, and mounted if it's a
>supported type. (And docs for writing more filesystems should also be
>available!)]

You assume a little too much in your zeal to spout your usual blather. The
original text says "another disk" implying that the disk in question is
also a floppy disk. You should also be aware that if a Mac encounters a
disk device with an incompatible driver or no driver present at all, it
simply doesn't mount any volumes on the device. It doesn't display volumes
which can't be used.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com