Re: Ramfast rev.D and Tower case

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5k8ciq$20im@uni.library.ucla.edu>,
 <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:
>Devin, this will work.  Just make sure that the HFS Zip disk is
>formatted on the GS first.  I don't know how Linux implements HFS,
>but if it does the Mac driver partition like the preformatted Mac

   A driver would be Mac code, and Linux runs on x86 (386 or better,
but some plans were for a 8086 port), DEC Alpha, Sparcs, some macs,
and probably a bunch more stuff. I'd think they probably just ignore
any driver partitions (annoying move by Apple to make them required on
Macs; stuff like that should be _optional_ with a generic driver
provided by the OS) and the HFS "fst" (not Linux's terminology) for
Linux just hits the disk directly.

   If you want to share data around between platforms, being able to
deal with the lowest common denominator is necssary; no specialized
drivers, file formats, or the like getting in the way. Unfortunately,
that's not listened to as much as would be liked.

Nathan Mates


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