Re: Modify a Mac external HD for a IIgs?

[toh@victoria.tc.ca (Marc Sira)]

In our last episode, Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> said:

>They won't ever get rid of normal HFS support though, too many CDs and other
>disks that won't change format are out there. Plus it's a compatibility thing
>with older stuff, although with Jobs running the show I doubt much thought
>goes into that.

True and true, but I tend to agree with Jobs on that count - the benefit of
backward compatibility has been vastly overstated, and the cost is frequently
very high. Within a year most people have upgraded everything anyway (often
nonsensically, it's true).

>As far as losing functionality goes, one only need look at the file sharing
>permissions from system 7 to 8. There used to be see files, see folders, and
>make changes. As of 8.0 it's no access, read, and read/write.

Ah, but you've never tried to map these to a non-Mac server, like netatalk. ;)
The new ones actually make sense in terms of the eventual filesystem. I do
concede that the old ones were easier to work with, but most of what they did
can still be reproduced under the new scheme.

>I've never seen a way to edit partition names myself. And from what I've seen
>the partition name for a ProDOS partition is the same as the volume name,
>slash and all. But all HFS ones are APPLE_HFS. In any event, Apple's
>formatters as far back as 7.3.5 put a ProDOS savvy driver on disks. Plus an
>easy way to make partitions is to make 'em HFS on the Mac and erase 'em into
>ProDOS on a IIgs.

The only way I know of to edit partition names is to directly edit the
partition table on the (hopefully unmounted!) disk. But that is the ideal
solution, if you happen to have a IIgs.

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Marc Sira		|	toh@victoria.tc.ca
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