Re: Can I have HFS on GS ?

[buchner@tcfreenet.org]

In article <1998081209533300.FAA28703@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
  supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) 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.

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.

Greg B.


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