Re: Goodbye HFS.FST (crashed HD again)

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

In article <50ts1s$ev1@zap.io.org>, Myles Fudge <crownmi@zap.io.org> wrote:

>>My first question is what in the crap can you do with a 1 gig hard disk on a
>>IIgs?
>
>Heh.. lots ;)  I've gone through a few 1gb hard drives with my GS over 
>the past year or two.  Mega audio & video files and near mirrors of big 
>FTP sites... awesome for big .qwk packets.  I get a lot of use out of my 
>video digitizer card, microphone, and stereo sound card.
>
>>...It ain't because the 105 is full. Heck, the 230 wasn't anywhere near full
>
>Eie... 105mb not full?  That's beyond me: I have several ~100mb 
>partitions on the drive overfilling with files.

I guess I'm a follower of the small-main-storage-lotsa-secondary-storage 
paradigm. I have small hard disks on my machines which only contain apps I 
use and I keep junk files on 230 mb magneto opticals on my Quadra or on a 2 
gig hard disk on my SE/30 file server. For Mac files anyhow, just about all
my IIgs files fit on the 105. I even have shrunk Apple III disks and old
files from my proline BBS (RIP) I haven't touched for years and all the sound
files I ever made with my digitizer on the 70 mb HFS volume with space left
over. My //e's hard disk is even better, about 7 mb out of 20 in use, including
my entire collection of tech notes and assembler source and a backup of the
system software 6.0.1 disks.

>>I'm also curious as to how people have trouble with HFS volumes. I put my
>>IIgs hard disk on my Mac to run Norton on the HFS volume every so often so
>>I can optimize it and look for problems and I've never seen any.
>
>I wish I had your fortune.  I only hope this isn't related to the newer 
>3.01F ROM chips in my RamFAST that I've had for months now.  It seems to 
>me that ever since I purchased that card I've been having a nightmare 
>with files... mostly on HFS volumes.

Dunno about that, I use a good ol' HS SCSI myself
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@frii.com                                    and Apple aficionado