Re: Patch for **MAJOR** HFS.FST Bug

[jagaroth@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jim Maricondo)]

In article <30c74f79.5639918@news.demon.co.uk>,
Soenke Behrens <sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I'd guess it would. If the HFS FST got the block numbers wrong, and
>now it gets them right, you might have problems. I'd do this: Make a
>backup copy. Then take the disk to a Mac, and run Norton or whatever
>over it. If Norton is happy with the volume, I guess you can assume it
>is indeed still alive and well. Then patch your HFS FST, and unless
>there is a problem Norton missed, you will have a functioning and
>stable HFS partition without any data loss.

For most people it will not be that easy..  I doubt most GS owners have
Mac driver partitions on their hard drives with HFS partitions, so the Mac
will not recognize their HDs.  And a driver partition can be a real pain
to install on a drive already fully partitioned..

 -Jim
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