Re: Goodbye HFS.FST (crashed HD again)

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

In article <50tmg5$3ip@nntp.novia.net>,
Carl Knoblock <cknoblo@oasis.novia.net> wrote:

>Neither of you mentioned the HFS FST patch, so I don't know if you are
>aware of it. 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. The patch fixed
>the error. 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. An image backup would undo the
>format, and should not be used.

Yep I patched the FST on my hard disk once upon a time. I was thinking I had
heard you were ok up to 200 mb volumes before you would have trouble. I didn't
bother with a backup/restore, since I had never seen any problems. Gee it
sure would be nice if there were HFS volume repair apps for the IIgs. I guess
using Norton on the Mac is gonna have to do though.
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@frii.com                                    and Apple aficionado