Re: Disassembling an FST...

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ericlob@cris.com (ericlob):

>Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com> wrote:
>
>> Why not work on making HFS (and while where at it adding HFS+ support)
>> bootable under GS/OS?  HFS is mostly modern and certainly an
>> improvement over the old ProDOS FS.
>
>If I recall, this can't be done due to the way the HFS volume is set up
>conflicting with what the smartport controller needs (blocks 0-2).

Yup.  Theoretically, according to David Empson, you could modify
the ROM on the Apple High Speed SCSI to fix this, but what about
FAT?  Once we have a read/write MS-DOS FST, can GS/OS be
booted from a FAT volume without ROM modification?  Does FAT
hog up blocks 0-2?  Or VFAT, if you want long filenames ...