Re: Can I have HFS on GS ?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

buchner@tcfreenet.org wrote:

: > >In my experience, using HFS all the time for sneakernetting gives the best
: > >results. I never had the can't-recognize-an-800K problem which Nathan used
: > >to bellyache about endlessly. No need to worry about filename conversion
: > >since HFS is a lot more forgiving as well.
: >
: > I have to agree with you Randy.  I've never had any of the HFS
: > problems that Nathan ranted about.  Not on HFS floppies and
: > not on the HFS partitions I formatted using the IIGS.
: >
: > There was a time when I wondered why I didn't have any of the
: > HFS problems mentioned.  Then I started noticing that the
: > very users reporting problems with HFS also had GUPP installed.

: I have had that problem and it was long before GUPP.  One summer
: was traveling around visiting a few friends and stayed with a
: friend who had a wintel machine for a while...I didn't have
: internet access at the time so I downloaded a bunch of stuff
: on his computer and put it on floppies.  Then I went and stayed
: with a friend who had a PowerMac 8100.  I could format 800K
: floppies on the 8100 and 4/5 of them wouldn't work on my IIGS.
: I could take the same disks and do them on his IICX and things
: would work just fine.

That's a different problem from Nathan's usual bellyache. That had to do
with supposed problems with HFS volumes >100 mb due to bugs in the FST.
I formatted a 230 mb disk with a 30 mb ProDOS volume and a 200 mb HFS volume
on my Mac for use with my IIgs, and put it on my IIgs and copied 700+ files
from my old 105 mb hard disk to it. Then I put it back on the Mac and ran
Norton Disk Doctor. It had nary a problem. That was using the patched FST
although I never had problems with the unpatched version either.

: There was a known problem with floppy drives in some of the
: first generation of PowerMacs, but Apple switched drives after
: a short while because of customer complaints.  I don't remember
: for certain, but I think there were less than 50,000 PowerMacs
: out that had those floppy drives so it was a rare problem.

The last 68Ks had manual inject drives too. My advice would be to try 
formatting 800Ks on your IIgs, then copying files to them from a Mac. Keep
in mind that the average IIgs drive has 10+ years of mileage on it and might
be in need of a cleaning and alignment.
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