Re: SyQuest and HFS FST

[jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (James David Wong)]

In article <9211180616.AA16897@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>, 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
|> The following revelation escaped Bob Hayosh's lips:
|> >
|> > Has any one used a SyQuest with both a Mac and a IIGS?
|> >
|> > I wanted to use my SyQuest with both a Mac and my GS but
|> > when I tried it (Finally got Sys6.0 up and running...) I found out
|> > that GS/OS won't read (Mac formated) HFS SyQuest carts.  GS formated
|> > HFS carts can't be read by the Mac either.
|> 
|>     Since Syquests have a SCSI partition map, I assume the problem is
|> the same one preventing an HFS hard disk formatted on a GS from working
|> on a Mac.  You need some sort of special partition with Mac-specific
|> data for it to be recognized.  The GS doesn't need it (and doesn't put
|> it on).  The reverse may also be a problem:  the Mac partition confuses
|> GS/OS somehow.

Specifically, the Mac stores a driver for the cartridge on the cartridge
itself.  If it can't find a driver, it won't automatically mount
the cartridge.

-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)