Re: Reorganizing my HD

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>I would like to (eventually) get gno for my gs, and would like to
>have 2 or 3 prodos/gsos partitions, and use the rest as one HFS partition.
>the HFS partition would be use with/by gno, since Unix/Gno allows for
>some funky path|file-names that won't be valid for gsos.

I currently have 3 ProDOS and 1 HFS.  It works pretty well.  Except now that
I got the PCT back, I need more ProDOS room.  :-|  Time to move less used
stuff to HFS.

>My concerns: what happens if the HFS partition crashes?  There are no
>utilities for/on the GS that will fix it.  I think someone said that
>I'll need a GENERICAPPLESCSI (?) driver on the HFS partition if I want
>the ability to connect the drive to a mac and have it repaired there.
>How do I go about getting this elusive driver?  I also recall something
>about the genericAppleSCSI driver hiding in the resource fork of the
>ADU program.  Is this true?

Well, HFS seem to be able to deal with bad blocks better than ProDOS can.  It
will ignore them.  :)  One in a while, you might want to hook it up to a Mac
and check if everything is fine, maybe also optimize it.  Jay will have cool
stuff to say about getting ADU's generic SCSI driver.  

If you have FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit, it can load the driver to memory.  So 
you can mount any SCSI drive even though it doesn't have a driver installed.
Other HD utility might also have this capability.

>Answers and suggestions and replies are eagerly anticipated, and much
>appreciated.

Hmm, do you have the PCT?  Got system 2.0.5?  :)

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frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com