Re: SCSI HD IIGS: Question - How to boot both 8-bit and 16-bit software?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <Cyu7sF.AFz@crash.cts.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@crash.cts.com> wrote:
> In article <CyrrIr.44D@actrix.gen.nz>,
> David Empson <dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
> >If you tried to access the files with resource forks from ProDOS-8,
> >you would get an "unknown storage type" error.  You can't copy or
> >delete them, but you could probably rename or lock/unlock them.
> 
> ProDOS 8 returns unsupported storage_type when you try to rename an extended
> file. BASIC reports it as an I/O error. This has to be a bug or oversight in
> the code since there's no reason under the sun for it.

Actually, there is a reason: it might be something belonging to
another file system, and renaming it may prevent it from being
accessed any more.  The Pascal area on a ProFILE (storage type 4)
comes to mind: it has to be called PASCAL.AREA and has to be in the
root directory.  If you renamed it, the Pascal ProFILE Manager
wouldn't find it.

They're probably just being overly careful.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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