Re: RamFAST and HFS?

[Min-Tzer Lay <eaeu899@taurus.oac.uci.edu>]

On 13 Apr 1995, Jay Krell wrote:

> JB3819@JB3819.SBC.COM writes:
> 
> >So, you HAVE to do the partitioning on the Mac so a driver can be installed.
> 
> This is a frequently stated falsehood around here lately
> it seems. Randy Shackelford corrected it partly. He
> partitioned on a IIGS with ADU and put a driver on with a Mac.

Well, from my experience, that's actually true. Without going through the 
GenEx route, as explained by Jay, when I launch a formatting utility on 
the Mac, it won't even recognize the drive, and simply ignore it. After 
going through the GenEx and the whole nine yards, the formatting utility 
finally recognize the drive; however, the finder still won't mount the 
hard drive. What I did then was to format and partition the drive under 
the formatting utility, which it puts a true generic mac driver on the 
hard drive. After that, the finder finally mounts the drive. Now go back to 
the GS, reinitialize one of the partitions to ProDOS, for which I would 
use on the GS.

What I don't understand is, why does it always come up with two extra 
partitions--I can't delete them, because that would destroy the mac 
formatted drive and put RAMFAST's partition scheme on there-- which I 
guess the mac won't accept. But if I leave them alone eventually the 
RAMFast reset it to RAMFast partitions. (I could be wrong about this--I 
have encountered it once only.) Now what I did was on the RAMFAST, make 
the two extra partitions inactive. Now the drive acts fine, without a 
problem. my guess with these extra partitions is that the mac uses them 
to store partitioning info, which the RAMFast mistook them to be 
partitioning markers. (or something like that). Note that when I 
reconnect the hard drive to the mac, there's no evidence of the two extra 
partitions.