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Slow ProDOS mounting (was Re: Patch for **MAJOR** HFS.FST Bug)
- Subject: Slow ProDOS mounting (was Re: Patch for **MAJOR** HFS.FST Bug)
- From: just.dave@genie.com
- Date: 1995/12/08
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.mac.misc
- Organization: via GEnie Information Systems
- References: <4a1bba$2qk@apollo.csd.net> <4a5e1g$fif@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4a6iqc$35l@apollo.csd.net> <4a8i6b$qtr@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>
- Sender: just.dave@genie.com (Dave Miller)
dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) writes:
>I have not used large HFS partitions with GS/OS (whaddya expect? I only
>have a 20Mb Vulcan...), but I have used quite a few 800k HFS volumes. If
>I have files that I need to be able to use on either Macintosh or GS, I
>use HFS because while GS/OS can mount an HFS volume almost immediately,
>MacOS System 7.5 takes about five *minutes* to mount and open a ProDOS
>volume...if it does it at all.
Really? Guess I'm never upgrading to 7.5 then... I have the ProDOS File
System Extension on System 7.1.3, and I never have any problem mounting
ProDOS disks. Doesn't seem to take any longer than an HFS disk.
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