Re: IIgs files from PC

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 26 Feb 2000 20:25:50 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>I thought I had a complete backup.  The HFS partition was
>fully restored thanks to file by file backup.  But Archiver put
>together a non-working backup of my ProDOS partition.  It
>seems that the data had been scrambled.

These problems were caused by one or more known bugs in the Archiver
program, not the ProDOS FST.  Users have been told for years not to
use Archiver to back up their data for this reason.

>I believe, based on my own experiences, that the major HFS
>bug has been corrected with the patch.  If there are other
>HFS bugs, I have not experienced them.  In a user survery,
>it is important to record both positive data and negative data.
>It is my belief that the other so called HFS problems are
>really poor hard drive practices such as not backup up
>data or restarting the computer while the drive is being
>accessed.  Such things will kill ProDOS as well as HFS
>partitions but on a ProDOS partition, there are utilities to
>fix damage.  But as long as you keep backups, all should
>be fine.

Backing up the data on your HFS volumes may not help you.  I've read
messages from one user who backed up his HFS partition and when it
became corrupted, he restored from his backup to find out that the
corruption had started to occur before he had made the backup and he
hadn't noticed so he ended up losing some files anyways.

Problems can and do happen with the HFS FST and just because a few
people have been lucky so far doesn't mean that there aren't problems
that will affect others.

This is why I don't recommend using HFS volumes on a IIgs because I
can't be sure they won't run into problems and lose files.  Both the
HFS FST and Archiver have known nasty bugs which is why using them is
not recommended.

Personally, I'm not comfortable using software with known nasty bugs,
especially if I can live without using that software.

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