Re: WTB SCSI HD

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5r6kgo$e44$1@europa.frii.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote:
>On the other hand, people who use HFS volumes on drives formatted on IIgses 
>have reported problems, as you're doubtless aware.

   Ohhh, more scare tactics from the Mac-worshipper. Please, you're
starting to sound like a TV advertisement from Macintosh Inc in their
trademark Country/Western style: "If you don't use a Mac, your data
will be lost, your pickup will die, your dog will get run over, your
wife will leave you, and your house will burn down... But hey, you
won't have to think!  We're the perfect system for ignorant hicks JUST
LIKE YOU!" 

   If you bothered to read the documentation for the first (and
obviously not the last) HFS bug introduced by *Apple* [their engineers
were great, but they didn't walk on water enough], the bug is that the
GS does a bad multiply to figure out the sector a block belongs to on
disk, and thus blows over other files. That bug was, as described by
the Apple engineers, is related STRICTLY to volume size, not where the
drive was formatted. Or, are you going to take your Mac-worshipping to
be more relevant to the situation at hand than the facts?

   Fact: bugs in coding have nothing to do with where the heck the
drive was formatted. You've gotten lucky with your data, and I'd
probably attribute that to your not doing anything but collect IIs,
rather than power users pushing the GS to (and over) the
limits. Anyone here have a HFS volume formatted on a Mac get toasted
to disprove Randy?

Nathan Mates

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