Re: Goodbye HFS.FST (crashed HD again)

[crownmi@zap.io.org (Myles Fudge)]

In article <50tmg5$3ip@nntp.novia.net>,
Carl Knoblock <cknoblo@oasis.novia.net> wrote:
>Randy Shackelford (shack@deimos.frii.com) wrote:
>> In article <50sp3a$29q@zap.io.org>, Myles Fudge <crownmi@zap.io.org> wrote:
>> >I am at my wits end with the 'Generic FST error' and a host of other 
>> My first question is what in the crap can you do with a 1 gig hard disk on a

>Neither of you mentioned the HFS FST patch, so I don't know if you are
>aware of it.

Yeah, I should have originally mentioned it.  I've been using Dave & 
Jawaid's 1 byte patch since it was released.  Still no success.

>Randy, the small size of your drive suggests your HFS
>partition is small. The unpatched FST seemed to work ok up to at least
>64k, but eventually led to corruption on large partitions.

Good point.  My HFS volumes are ~95mb (one zip disk), and one 235mb 
partition.  The 95's choked first.

>The patch fixed the error.

I wish.

>The HFS partition needs to have the FILES backed up and then
>the patch installed and the partition formatted with finder (Erase will
>do, actually) then the FILES restored.

I copied the files to empty 32mb ProDOS volumes on zip disks, toasted the 
whole hard drive, created and formatted new partitions a la patched 
HFS.FST, and file copied the files back.  BOOM!

>An image backup would undo the format, and should not be used.

Also no need copying corrupted directory structures, block references, 
etc, with an image backup/restore... you've gotta start fresh.

Thanks for the follow up.  I wonder who wants to trade their working
ROM 3 / RamFAST system for mine?  :)

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